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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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
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Polygraph
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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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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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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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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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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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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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In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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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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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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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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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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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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