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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
Born: Nov 10, 1730
Died: Apr 4, 1774
Better Country Little Love Man You
Related authors: Eavan Boland John Millington Synge Patrick Kavanagh Seamus Heaney Thomas Moore William Allingham William Butler Yeats
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith
Life Journey Matter Life Is A Bad Must Life Is A Journey Roads How Traveled
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Oliver Goldsmith
Love Old Wine Old Friends Manners Everything Books Saint Patrick's Day Friends Times Old Books Old Wine
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
Law Men Rich Rule Poor
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith
Life You Better Preach Than Lips Your Sermon
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
Champion Every Absurdity Defend
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. Oliver Goldsmith
Future Alone Great Wise Regret Past Lies Great Source Calamity Source Anticipation Person Regardless Who Therefore Present Thinks
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Oliver Goldsmith
Smile Fools First Melancholy Feel Make Always End May In The End Us Company
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Oliver Goldsmith
Good Learning Genius Better Gives Puzzle Maintain Discerning Nonsense Brain Liquor Grammar
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Oliver Goldsmith
Weed Virtue Faults Out Scarce Some Excellence Allied Without Vice Nearly
Tenderness is a virtue. Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue Tenderness
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! Oliver Goldsmith
Happiness Nature Beauty Those Destructive Charming More Colors Never Consummate Pictures Bliss How Than Taste Romance Deceptive Paint Describe Novel Humans
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. Oliver Goldsmith
Hope Hook Bait Covers Any
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith
Happy Pleasing Those More Crowded Prospects Hours Pass Than Fruition View
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. Oliver Goldsmith
You Would Like Talk Make Were Fishes Whales Little
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith
Art Joke Salt Unless Thou Thou Art Wilt Throw Raw Thee Receive Harm
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. Oliver Goldsmith
Service Family Man Honest Man Single Married Brought More Only He Talked Opinion Continue Up Than Did Who Large Large Family Population Ever Honest
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. Oliver Goldsmith
Knowledge Natural Become Numerous Ease Possible Must More Attaining Writers Arise Readers Greatest Whence Necessarily Desire
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. Oliver Goldsmith
Man Long Nor Wants Little Here Below
They say women and music should never be dated. Oliver Goldsmith
Music Women Say Dated Never Should They Say
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith
You World Better Critic Shall Could Write Written How Want Show
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Oliver Goldsmith
Marriage Wife Husband Praised Pitied Wants Little Really Appreciated
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? Oliver Goldsmith
Art Woman Too Late Guilt Men Too Late Melancholy Finds Betray Folly Charm Soothe Lovely Wash Away Her
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. Oliver Goldsmith
Sometimes Girl Too Like Little Played

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