Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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.
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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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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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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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