Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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