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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, enfeebles all internal strength of thought; and the weak soul within itself unblest, leans for all pleasure on another's breast (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, but winter lingering chills the lap of May; no zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, but meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
These people, however fallen, are still men, and that is a very good title to my affection (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write, - whether avarice or fame, - the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, and the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, who pepper'd the highest was surest to please (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Very well, cried I, that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; his manners were gentle, complying, and bland; still born to improve in every part, his pencil out faces, his manners are heart (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Far different there from all that charm'd before, the various terrors of that horrid shore;... Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
His house was known to all the vagrant train, he chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; the long remembered beggar was his guest, whose beard descending swept his aged breast (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I am amazed how men can call her blind, when, by the company she keeps, she seems so very discriminating (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
One writer excels at a plan or a title - page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The wretch condemn'd with life to part, still, still on hope relies; and every pang that rends the heart bids expectation rise (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion and that which we do with the dead, is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said? (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, at all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
We grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same, - fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Alas! The joys that fortune brings are trifling, and decay, and those who prize the trifling things, more trifling still than they (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)