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• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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• Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Fields, Done

  Oliver Goldsmith (1830). “The vicar of Wakefield, etc. (University edition.)”, p.217

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• What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Cities, House

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 686-88, The Bee, No, IV. A City Night-Piece, 1922.

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• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sunshine, Clouds, Storm

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.199

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• The very pink of perfection.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Perfection

  She Stoops to Conquer act 1 (1773)

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• [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mean, Science, Volcanoes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.26

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• Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
  That bliss which only centers in the mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Mind, Vain

  "Collected Works".

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• Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Return, Giver, Rejected

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.149

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• Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Death, Distance, Friendly

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.693

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• It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Matrimony

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 16

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• The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Malicious, Sneer

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.133

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• Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Teacher, Morning, Teaching

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 197

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• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Home, Night

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

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• Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Defense, Trouble

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• Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Flesh, Reputation

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.211

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• As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Mother, Lost Love

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
  And every care resign:
  And we shall never, never part,
  My life-my all that's mine!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Heart, Care

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.147

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

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• The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Form, Quarry

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

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• All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Life Is

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.47

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• The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
  Still, still on hope relies;
  And every pang that rends the heart
  Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Heart, Expectations

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.120

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• In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Time, Towns, Faster

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller”, p.234

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• Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Teaching, Men, Gains

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms”, p.67

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• There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Students, Pleasure, Attending

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.239

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• The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Sea, Sailing

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East ...”, p.120

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