Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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