To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — 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
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before,… — 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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