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Some Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
- What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
- 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…
- There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
- 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 dialogism,…
- Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.
- There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
- Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
- There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade…
- Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh…
- They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her…
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