Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
OLIVER GOLDSMITH- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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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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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAs 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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They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHEvery absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHMan wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThere are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCould a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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