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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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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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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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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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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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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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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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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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