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!
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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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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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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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