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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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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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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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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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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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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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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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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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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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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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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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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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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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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
Oliver Goldsmith
