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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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Elphin
County Roscommon
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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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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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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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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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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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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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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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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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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