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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Oliver_Goldsmith_by_Sir_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg/220px-Oliver_Goldsmith_by_Sir_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg)
An Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".
Here are some famous quotes by Oliver Goldsmith.
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The very pink of perfection.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
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Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
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He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
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The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
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Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.
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Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
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To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
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But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
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I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
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He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
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And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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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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He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
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Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way; And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
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At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
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I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.