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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Oliver Goldsmith

Color, Romance, Taste

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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Long, Commerce, Honour

Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

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Art, Salt, Harm

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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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Simple, Acting, Natural

'Retaliation' (1774) l. 101 (on Garrick)

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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

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Science, Accounts, Linked

Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.4

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

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Humility, Alive, Enough

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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

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Country, Mountain, Loud

Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “The Traveller”, p.7

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To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

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Art, Simplicity, Charm

Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

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Fashion, Art, Joy

1770 The Deserted Village, l.263-4.

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When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

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Long, Curiosity, Demand

Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.5

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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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Art, Sky, Bird

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.64

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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

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Sweet, Looks, Cottages

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).”, p.76

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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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Children, Men, Good Man

Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.31

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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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Past, Heaven, World

Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.7

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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

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Hurt, Healthy, Ruffles

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.58

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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

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Wisdom, Doubt, Mirth

Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.27

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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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Wisdom, Truth, Lips

'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 179

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Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

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Lying, Ocean, Son

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.15

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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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Puff, Peppers, Flattery

Oliver Goldsmith (1839). “Poetical Works”, p.145

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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

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Book, Body, Pages

Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.353

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To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

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Husband, Flames, Repose

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.42

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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

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Book, Vices, Should

Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

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Book, Proportion, New Books

Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

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Though very poor, may still be very blest.

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May, Poor, Stills

1770 The Deserted Village, l.426.

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Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

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Country, Home, Heart

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

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Born: November 10, 1730
Died: April 4, 1774
Occupation: Novelist
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