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Letter "O" » Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«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.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anticipation, calamity, regardless
«On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting»
«People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after»
«All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Husbands,
Wives
| Keywords:
appreciated, pitied, praised
«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?»
«Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.»
«Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall»
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
relieve, struggling
«Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.»
«The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.»
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