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From Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
- Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
- The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
- She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much…
- As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds…
- Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most…
- [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 means…
- We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed…
- Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
- Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
- Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a…
- In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
- To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
- Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to…
- A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind…
- If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked,…
- He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
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