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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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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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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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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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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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