Oliver Goldsmith, (1728-74), Irish-born English writer Quotes
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
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.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for pre-eminence.
Philosophy should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
True generosity does not consist in obeying every impulse of humanity... So as to render us incapable of future ones.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom.
The weakest soul, within itself unblest,Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.