The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHConscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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 impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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