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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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