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Letter "O" » Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish»
«For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth»
«He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back»
«Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.»
«Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
allusion, manageable, moderate, possessors, serviceable, stray
«That's a good girl. I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
converts, gooseberry, PIE, qualified
«Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.»
«For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again»
«As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
shoemaker, shoemakers, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor
«Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest»
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