Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - Page 2

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• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

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  Inspirational, Fortune, Industry

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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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  Wise, Regret, Lying

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• We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

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  Speak, Virtue

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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

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  Destiny, Two, Suffering

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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

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• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

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  Strength, World, Indifference

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

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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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• Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

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  Gratitude, Love Is, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1852). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.330

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• Silence gives consent.

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  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

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• It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

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  Taken, Giving, Advice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.202

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

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  Needs, Borrowing, Multitudes

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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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  Passion, Two, Pity

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• In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

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  Two, Opposites, Opinion

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.216

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• Error is always talkative.

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  Errors, Talking, Talkative

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• The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

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  Struggle, Adversity, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.176

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• Crimes generally punish themselves.

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  Prison, Crime

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.192

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• As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

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  Squares, Circles, Voice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.397

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• The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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  Science, Psychology, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

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• Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

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  Happiness, Individuality, Woe

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• Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

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

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• An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

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  Contempt, Englishmen

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

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• If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

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  Wish, Rich, Appearance

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• The first blow is half the battle.

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  Blow, Battle, Firsts

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 2

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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.

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  Wise, Home, Taste

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• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

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  Funny, Witty, Lying

  Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”

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