Oliver Goldsmith quotes - page 6

By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune. View quote
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He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence. View quote
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The better sort here pretend to the utmost compassion for animals of every kind. To hear them speak, a stranger would be apt to imagine they could hardly hurt the gnat that stung them: they seem so tender and so full of pity, that one would take them for the harmless friends of the whole creation; the protectors of the meanest insect or reptile that was privileged with existence. And yet, would you believe it? I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals toasted up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity and they eat the objects of their compassion. View quote
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. View quote
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. View quote
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No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them: But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. View quote
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Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a mouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire. View quote
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It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. View quote
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Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. View quote
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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved. View quote
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You may all go to pot. View quote
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. View quote
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay. View quote
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. View quote
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. View quote
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. View quote
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Tenderness is a virtue. View quote
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. View quote
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. (Oliver Goldsmith)
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. View quote
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. View quote
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. View quote
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. View quote
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