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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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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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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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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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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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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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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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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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Hope, like the gleaming taper
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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