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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? (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
And what is friendship but a name, a charm that lulls to sleep; a shade that follows wealth or fame, and leaves the wretch to weep? (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Thus let me hold thee to my heart, and every care resign: and we shall never, never part, my life - my all that's mine! (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom - Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Philosophy... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
See me, how calm I am.Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can’t be perfectly right (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The bounds of a man’s knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
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 (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)