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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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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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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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The very pink of perfection.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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Silence gives consent.
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