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Oliver Goldsmith
Ireland
10 Nov 1728 // 4 Apr 1774
Writer, Poet
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On Silence:
Silence gives consent.
The Good-Natured Man
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The very pink of perfection.
She Stoops to Conquer
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On Handsomeness:
Handsome is that handsome does.
Vicar of Wakefield
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On Luxury:
And learn the luxury of doing good.
The Traveller
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
The Deserted Village
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Little things are great to little men.
Old Proverbs, Wise Sayings
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On Luxury:
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
The Deserted Village
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
The Traveller
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
The Traveller
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These little things are great to little man.
The Traveller
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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