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Let school-masters puzzle their brain. With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;...
By Oliver Goldsmith
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
By Oliver Goldsmith
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.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
By Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
By Oliver Goldsmith
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
By Oliver Goldsmith
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!
By Oliver Goldsmith
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
By Oliver Goldsmith
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
By Oliver Goldsmith
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
By Oliver Goldsmith
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
By Oliver Goldsmith
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
By Oliver Goldsmith
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
By Oliver Goldsmith
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
By Oliver Goldsmith
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
By Oliver Goldsmith
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
By Oliver Goldsmith
The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
By Oliver Goldsmith