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Oliver Goldsmith Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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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.
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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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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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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.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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