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Oliver Goldsmith quotes (33) He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in anothers keeping. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Achievement I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown not for a fine glossy surface but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Marriage On the stage he was natural simple affecting; T was only that when he was off he was acting. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Acquaintance Don't let us make imaginary evils when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Evil I love everything thats old: old friends old times old manners old books old wine. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Age Ask me no questions and I ll tell you no fibs. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Lever If frugality were established in the state if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life there might be fewer wants and even fewer pleasures but infinitely more happiness. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Unsorted Silence gives consent. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Sick I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Zeal Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Friendship Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Business Good people all with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Praise The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Speak Handsome is that handsome does. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Beauty We seldom speak of the virtue which we have but much oftener of that which we lack. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Times The hours we pass with happy prospects in view Are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Prospects The very pink of perfection. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Perfection And in that town a dog was found As many dogs there be Both mongrel puppy whelp and hound And curs of low degree. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Dog To the last moment of his breath On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Expectation Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Conscience Like the bee we should make our industry our amusement. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Industry For just experience tells in every soil That those that think must govern those that toil. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Thief Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Modesty Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Factory Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Law You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Example How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Cause Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Life Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Fortune There is no arguing with him for if his pistol misses fire he knockes you down with the butt end of it. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Gun People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Copy Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry their countrys pride When once destroyd can never be supplied. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Prosperity His conduct still right with his argument wrong. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Conduct |
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