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Oliver Goldsmith
Ireland
10 Nov 1728 // 4 Apr 1774
Writer, Poet
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
The Deserted Village
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On Measure:
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
The Good-Natured Man
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Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.
The Deserted Village
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On Man:
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
The Traveller
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
She Stoops to Conquer
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And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
The Deserted Village
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Retaliation
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On World:
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
The Traveller
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The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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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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