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Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and physician. He is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and his plays 'She Stoops to Conquer' and 'The Good-Natur'd Man'. Goldsmith's works are characterized by their wit, humor, and moral depth.

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Famous Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

“Those who think must govern those that toil.”

Thinking Toil

Book:The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

“Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.”

Thinking Men Lying Virtue Duty Gratitude Thousand Ten Guides Punishment Obligation One Man Virtuous Giver Apprehension

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“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.”

Thinking Persons Past Lying Wise Regret Source Anticipation Calamity Express Yourself No Regrets I Regret Have No Regrets Past Regrets

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.”

Thinking Mind Littles Universal Beaten Vulgar Scorn Benevolence Eccentric Authorship Great Minds Little Minds

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.”

Thinking Found Cities Habit Contracts

Book:An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

“Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.”

Thinking Kind Found Circumstances Gratitude Debt Obligation Submit Humiliation Acknowledgment Mortification Proclaiming

Book:Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

“As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.”

Thinking Shows House Pride Eating Hang Ups

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Persons Country Would Be Information Ready Travel Welcome More Knowledge

Book:Essays, poems and plays

Source: Essays, poems and plays