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50 quotes (Page 2 of 2 pages)Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Pity
Oliver Goldsmith
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Money
Oliver Goldsmith
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Tenderness is a virtue.
Tenderness
Oliver Goldsmith
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Laughter
Oliver Goldsmith
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Fools and Foolishness
Oliver Goldsmith
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
Doctors
Oliver Goldsmith
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Goldsmith
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Correction
Oliver Goldsmith
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Riches
Oliver Goldsmith
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Laughter
Oliver Goldsmith
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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
Laughter
Oliver Goldsmith
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Psychology
Oliver Goldsmith
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Those that think must govern those that toil.
Thoughts and Thinking
Oliver Goldsmith
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
Drugs
Oliver Goldsmith
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Business
Oliver Goldsmith
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
Mind
Oliver Goldsmith
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Teachers and Teaching
Oliver Goldsmith
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Borrowing
Oliver Goldsmith
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Who can direct when all pretend to know?
Management
Oliver Goldsmith
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Oliver Goldsmith
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Critics and Criticism
Oliver Goldsmith
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Character
Oliver Goldsmith
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun