Oliver Goldsmith

Ireland
10 Nov 1728 // 4 Apr 1774
Writer, Poet

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On Example:

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

On Argument:

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.

Vicar of Wakefield

On Love:

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

The Good-Natured Man

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

The Traveller

On Speech:

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The Bee

On Self-confidence:

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

On Rich:

A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

The Deserted Village

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.

The Traveller

On Failure:

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Retaliation
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