Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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