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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
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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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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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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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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Error is ever talkative.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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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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Error is always talkative.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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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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