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Polygraph Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Prudery is ignorance.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Silence gives consent.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Oliver Goldsmith
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
Oliver Goldsmith
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
Oliver Goldsmith
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The first blow is half the battle.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Oliver Goldsmith
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Oliver Goldsmith
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