Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - Page 14

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• What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
  And that which we do with the dead,
  Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
  What more of a man can be said?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Men, Names

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Home, Night

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

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• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gay, Mind, Half

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Defense, Trouble

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• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Men, Zealous

  Oliver Goldsmith (1845). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.96

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• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Humility, Alive, Enough

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• Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Fields, Done

  Oliver Goldsmith (1830). “The vicar of Wakefield, etc. (University edition.)”, p.217

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• As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
  One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
  But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
  They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Thinking, House

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.592

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• Alas! the joys that fortune brings
  Are trifling, and decay,
  And those who prize the trifling things,
  More trifling still than they.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Joy, Decay, Fortune

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, Economy, Wells

  Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin (1809). “Letters from a citizen of the world (concluded). The Bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects”, p.300

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• Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Men, Long

  "Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit" l. 31 (1766).

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• A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Addresses, Sincerity, Silent

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

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• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Law, Generosity, Duty

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.183

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• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Average, Risk

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• Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Politics, Certain, Attempting

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, Hands, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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• Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Trotting, Asks

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• Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Work, Amusement, Bees

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• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Talent, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1812). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.”, p.326

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