The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — 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
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which… — 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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