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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
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
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
Ever
Talkative
Error
Errors

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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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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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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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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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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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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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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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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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