Oliver Goldsmith
Poet
1730-11-10
Books by Oliver Goldsmith
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Essays of Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
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The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith
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Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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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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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.
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I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,Around my fire an evening group to draw,And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,I still had hopes, my long vexations past,Here to return -- and die at home at last.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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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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I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
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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.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,Around my fire an evening group to draw,And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,I still had hopes, my long vexations past,Here to return -- and die at home at last.
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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.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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