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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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 ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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The very pink of perfection.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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