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Join the room“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
“I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”
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Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. In 1822 he wrote some verses for an amateur theatre in Halifax. He is best known for The Rising Village, which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in England by a Canadian poet. Furthermore, his Autobiography is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem The Deserted Village The Rising Village is a response.
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