As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest
Oliver Goldsmith
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,
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The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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And news much older than their ale went round.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Ful...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Silence gives consent.
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jade on a journey.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.
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The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;
...
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But bind him to his native mountains more.
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...
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Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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Withers the beauty's transient flower.
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And guide my lonely way
To where you taper cheers the vale
...
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His first best country ever is at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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Is to seem everything but what they are.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
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...
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And ...
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Adorns and cheers our way;
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH But in his duty prompt at every call,
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
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Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word--
...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
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Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
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And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.
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Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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His pity gave ere charity began.
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To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
...
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Prince...
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Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden
shoes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather t...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her l...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine
OLIVER GOLDSMITH They say women and music should never be dated
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The very pink of perfection.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, dif...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH You may all go to pot.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more s...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH