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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
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
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Sincerity
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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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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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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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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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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