You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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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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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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