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• The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, May, Poverty

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.271

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• Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Results, Politeness, Good Nature

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.155

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• The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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  Dog, Laughter, Wind

  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.61

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• A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

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  Creation, Modest, Whole

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

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  Men, Mark

  Oliver Goldsmith (1807). “The good natur'd man: a comedy, etc”, p.24

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

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  Men, Land, Decay

  1770 The Deserted Village, l.51-6.

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• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

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  Love, Men, Zealous

  Oliver Goldsmith (1845). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.96

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• Fear guides more than gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Fear, Guides

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• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

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  Anxiety, Simple Life, Comfort

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.178

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• Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

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  Strength, Justice, Coward

  1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.13.

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

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  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

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  Thank You, Pain, Want

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

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  Art, Easy, Lost

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions”, p.380

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• A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

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  Mind, Body, Active

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.144

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• Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

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  Science, Men, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems”, p.500

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• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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  Modesty, Virtue, Breasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.121

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• He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

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  Sympathy, Felt

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
  My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
  And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Missing You, Goodbye, Missing Someone

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 7

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• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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  Men, Decay, Wealth

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• She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

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  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

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• Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

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  Water, Disappear, Drop Of Water

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• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

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  Running, Average, Risk

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• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

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  Regret, Looks, Way

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

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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

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  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  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.286

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• There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

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  Grief, Agony, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.342

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