Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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