Oliver Goldsmith quotes - page 2

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. (Oliver Goldsmith)
They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.
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And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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The very pink of perfection.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark. (Oliver Goldsmith)
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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