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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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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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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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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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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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