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Is it that Nature, attentive t...

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The volumes of antiquity, like...

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.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

An emperor in his nightcap wil...

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The youth who follows his appe...

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

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The little mind who loves itse...

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Whatever be the motives which ...

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Aspiring beggary is wretchedne...

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

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While selfishness joins hands ...

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Like the tiger, that seldom de...

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

See me, how calm I am.
Ay...

See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

If the soul be happily dispose...

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

The sports of children satisfy...

The sports of children satisfy the child.

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I have found by experience tha...

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

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Near yonder copse, where once ...

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
Far other aims his h

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An Englishman fears contempt m...

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

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The bounds of a man's knowledg...

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

It is impossible to combat ent...

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes

Ridicule has even been the mos...

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

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Error is ever talkative....

Error is ever talkative.

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For the first time, the best m...

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....