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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Oliver Goldsmith

Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

Nationality: Anglo-Irish
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1728-1774
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother stil
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fai
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiab
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.
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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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