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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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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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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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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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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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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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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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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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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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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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