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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
«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.»
«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.»