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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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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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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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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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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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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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Silence gives consent.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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