Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Travel, Journey

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Needs, Borrowing, Multitudes

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• He who fights and runs away
  May live to fight another day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Fighting, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Evil, Encounters

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

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• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Different, Politeness

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.112

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• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Law, Justice

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

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• If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Moments, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Decay, Wealth

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Way

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• True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

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  Wisdom, Causes, Effects

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.426

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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Mind

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

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• A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Home, Taste

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• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
  Adorns and cheers our way;
  And still, as darker grows the night,
  Emits a brighter ray.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Cheer

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.70

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• Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

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  Enemy, Opponents, Enthusiasm

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• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

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  Inspirational, Fortune, Industry

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• Little things are great to little men.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  "The traveller. Or, a prospect of society". Poem by Oliver Goldsmith, 1764.

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• Tenderness is a virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Tenderness

  "The Good-Natur'd Man". Play by Oliver Goldsmith, 1768.

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• An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Contempt, Englishmen

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.13

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• Those who think must govern those that toil.

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  Thinking, Toil

  Oliver Goldsmith (1818). “The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.16

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• No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

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  Thinking, Fool, World

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• The first blow is half the battle.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Blow, Battle, Firsts

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 2

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