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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
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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Error is always talkative.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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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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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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