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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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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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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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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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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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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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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 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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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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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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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