All Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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