~ Oliver Goldsmith Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way; And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.