Oliver Goldsmith
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 Goldsmith
alone
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
beauty
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
-Oliver Goldsmith
friendship
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
-Oliver Goldsmith
friendship
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 Goldsmith
future
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 Goldsmith
great
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
happiness
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 Goldsmith
home
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-Oliver Goldsmith
hope
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 Goldsmith
knowledge
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
-Oliver Goldsmith
learning
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
-Oliver Goldsmith
love
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
nature
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
-Oliver Goldsmith
smile
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
-Oliver Goldsmith
strength
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
-Oliver Goldsmith
success
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
-Oliver Goldsmith
wedding
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