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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
philosopher, relieve, struggling
«Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
charming, consummate, consummated, consummating, deceptive, describe, destructive, novel
«Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.»
«Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
accuse, coward
«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
«Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
discerning, grammar, liquor, schoolmasters
«Tenderness is a virtue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Tenderness
| Keywords:
tenderness