“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
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Famous Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes
“All the bloomy flush of life is fled.”
Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod
“The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.”
Source: The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
Source: She Stoops to Conquer
“Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected