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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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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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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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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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 silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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