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Oliver Goldsmith quotes - page 9
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Oliver Goldsmith
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Oliver Goldsmith
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
Oliver Goldsmith
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
Oliver Goldsmith
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver Goldsmith
I hate the French because they are all slaves, and wear wooden shoes.
Oliver Goldsmith
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
Oliver Goldsmith
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Oliver Goldsmith
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
Oliver Goldsmith
What cities, as great as this, have ... promised themselves immortality Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others.... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Oliver Goldsmith
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining Though equal to all things, for all things unfit Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
Oliver Goldsmith
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
Oliver Goldsmith
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
A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the bust whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned; Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.
Oliver Goldsmith
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