Zitate von Oliver Goldsmith
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Oliver Goldsmith:
Menschen machen selten Fortschritte, wenn sie kein anderes Modell zum Nachahmen zur Verfügung haben als sich selbst.
Informationen über Oliver Goldsmith
Schriftsteller, Theologe, Arzt (England, 1728 - 1774).
Oliver Goldsmith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Oliver Goldsmith wäre heute 295 Jahre, 5 Monate, 10 Tage oder 107.908 Tage alt.
Geboren am 10.11.1728
Gestorben am 04.04.1774
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 115 Zitate von Oliver Goldsmith
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Age that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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All our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
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As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
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Brutes never meet in bloody fray, Nor cut each other's throats, for pay.
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By struggling with misfortunes, we are sure to recieve some wounds in the conflict; but a sure method to come off victorious is by running away.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strenght to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man.
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His greates riches - ignorance of wealth.
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Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, / Adorns and cheers our way; / And still, as darker grows the night, / Emits a lighter ray.
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How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
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How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
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I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.