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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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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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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 any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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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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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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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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