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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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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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