Oliver Goldsmith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
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“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
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“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
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“Little things are great to little men.”
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“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
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“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
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“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
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“The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.”
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“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
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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.”
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“The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”
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“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
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“The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.”
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“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
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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.”
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“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
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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.”
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“Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
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“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
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“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
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“Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.”
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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?”
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“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
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