But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — 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
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the… — 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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