Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Travel, Journey

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• All is not gold that glitters,
  Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Glasses, Gold

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Husband, Wife, Wedding Toast

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• He who fights and runs away
  May live to fight another day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Fighting, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Disappointment, Tired

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.116

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Minutes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East”, p.124

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• They say women and music should never be dated.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Geek, Conquer, Should

  George Farquhar, Isaac Bickerstaffe, David Garrick, John Burgoyne, Benjamin Hoadly (1816). “The Recruiting Officer. A Comedy”

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• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Evil, Encounters

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

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• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Law, Justice

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

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• True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

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  Wisdom, Causes, Effects

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.426

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• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Enthusiasm

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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• If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Moments, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Decay, Wealth

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Mind

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

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• There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Greatness, Generosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.182

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• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Different, Politeness

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.112

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• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

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  Powerful, Army, Soul

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Miscellaneous works”, p.189

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• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Way

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• As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Squares, Circles, Voice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.397

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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

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  Destiny, Two, Suffering

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