Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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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 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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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