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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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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 brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith -
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith -
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
Oliver Goldsmith -
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.
Oliver Goldsmith -
His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Oliver Goldsmith -
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,And news much older than their ale went round.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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 -
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith -
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,-Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Oliver Goldsmith