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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
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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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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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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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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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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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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