Voice
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, author of The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer. The Citizen of the World (1762) gathers his letters written in the voice of a fictional Chinese philosopher visiting London.
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“Our greatest glory is, not in never falling; but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith (often misattributed to Confucius), The Citizen of the World (1762), vol. 1, Letter VII. Spoken by Goldsmith's fictional Chinese narrator, who credits Confucius; the line is not found in Confucius's works (see Quote Investigator, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/27/rising/). Spelling modernised from the long s.Watch on YouTube: Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit ↗Angela Lee Duckworth discusses perseverance