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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
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County Roscommon
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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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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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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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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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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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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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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