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Oliver Goldsmith

Filial obedience is the first...

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes
Oliver Goldsmith

A kind and gentle heart he ha...

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes
Oliver Goldsmith

Remote, unfriended, melanchol...

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes
Oliver Goldsmith

There is a greatness in being...

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Oliver Goldsmith 542 quotes
Oliver Goldsmith

Measures, not men, have alway...

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

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Oliver Goldsmith

A mind too vigorous and activ...

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

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Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or...

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

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Oliver Goldsmith

The soul may be compared to a...

The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

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Oliver Goldsmith

I have seen her and sister cr...

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Unequal combinations are alwa...

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

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Oliver Goldsmith

She who makes her husband and...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Our bounty, like a drop of wa...

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

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Oliver Goldsmith

It has been remarked that alm...

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

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Oliver Goldsmith

The genteel thing is the gent...

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

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Oliver Goldsmith

O friendship! thou fond sooth...

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Life has been compared to a r...

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.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Thus love is the most easy an...

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

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Oliver Goldsmith

To me more dear, congenial to...

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Near yonder copse, where once...

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Ridicule has even been the mo...

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

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