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“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Inspirational #Life #Change
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“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Love #Friendship #Birthday
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Motivational #Success #Perseverance
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“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Real #Evil #Encounters
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“Little things are great to little men.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Men #Littles #Little Things
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“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Enemy #Opponents #Enthusiasm
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“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Country #Different #Ceremony
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“The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Lasts #Found #Circumstances
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“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Life #Travel #Journey
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“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Country #Travel #Home
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“The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Science #Psychology #Mind
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“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Hope #Bait #Hook
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“Wealth accumulates, and men decay.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Men #Decay #Wealth
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“The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Humanity #World #Conscious
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“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#People #Desire #Thousand
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“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Wise #Home #Taste
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“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Want #Use #Speech
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“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Hope #Cheer #Night
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“Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Individuality #Woe #Goodness
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“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Men #Law #Justice
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“Tenderness is a virtue.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Virtue #Tenderness
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“You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Marriage #Thinking #Done
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“Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Long #Commerce #Honour
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“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Champion #Absurdity
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“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Modesty #Virtue #Breasts
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“Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Results #Politeness #Good Nature
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“Silence gives consent.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Giving #Silence #Consent
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“Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Integrity #Heart #Understanding
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“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
#Laughing #Way #Audience
