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
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon… — 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
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been… — 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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