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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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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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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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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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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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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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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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