Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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 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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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