Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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