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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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