Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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