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Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, that, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, downward they move, a melancholy band, pass from the shore and darken all the strand (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
A kind and gentle heart he had, to comfort friends and foes; the naked every day he clad when he put on his clothes (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay; sat by his fire, and talked the night away, wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, where all the ruddy family around laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail or sigh with pity at some mournful tale (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
As in some Irish houses, where things are so - so, one gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; but, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, they'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, the modest matron, and the blushing maid, forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, to traverse climes beyond the Western main (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, and to party gave up what was meant for mankind (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: The mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head should carry all it knew (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Whatever the skill of any country be in sciences, it is from excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, that, like the circle bounding Earth and skies, allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
In all my wanderings round this world of care, in all my griefs - and God has given my share - I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, amidst these humble bowers to lay me down (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
O blest retirement! Friend to life's decline - retreats from care, that never must be mine How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, a youth of labour with an age of ease! (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)