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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
Inspired Idiot
Bait
Covers
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Hope
More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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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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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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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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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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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
It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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