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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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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Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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
Inspired Idiot
Beggary
Wretchedness
Aspiring
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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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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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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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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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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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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