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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
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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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Crime
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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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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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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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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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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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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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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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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