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Polygraph Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
Oliver Goldsmith
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
Oliver Goldsmith
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Oliver Goldsmith
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver Goldsmith
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Oliver Goldsmith
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
Oliver Goldsmith
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Oliver Goldsmith
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
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