Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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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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