| 126 Famous Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others”
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“Of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a fringe of hair upon the body of our grandmother, try to obtain knowledge that you may be strengthened in life”
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“Tenderness is a virtue.”
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“I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well”
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“His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
The long remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 149)
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“Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 161)
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“A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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“Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”
Adversity Quotes Source: The Captivity (act I)
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“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”
Growth Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 126)
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“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIII)
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“The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:
There all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.”
Night Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 121)
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“While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.”
Heaven Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 110)
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“Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
Poverty Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 413)
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“The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.”
Poverty Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IV)
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“But in his duty prompt at every call,
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.”
Preaching Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 165)
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“They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam
whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first
born--ah!”
Preaching Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 165)
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“Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.”
Genius Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 29)
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“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”
Business Quotes Source: The Deserted Village, lines actually added to Goldsmith's work by Samuel Johnson
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“In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.”
Reading Quotes Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXV)
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“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused
before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”
Reading Quotes Source: The Citizen of the World (letter LXXXIII)
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“Nobody with me at sea but myself.”
Solitude Quotes Source: The Haunch of Venison
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“In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill,
For even though vanquished he could argue still.”
Argument Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 211)
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“His conduct still right with his argument wrong.”
Argument Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 46)
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“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects
too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.”
Argument Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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“In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.”
Argument Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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