Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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