Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Life
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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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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Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
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