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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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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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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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