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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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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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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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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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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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