There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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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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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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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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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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