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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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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