Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. — 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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