Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Oliver Goldsmith
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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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Oliver Goldsmith
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
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Oliver Goldsmith
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
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Oliver Goldsmith
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I see the rural virtues leave the land.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
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Oliver Goldsmith
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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Oliver Goldsmith
If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey when wealth accumulates but men decay.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Oliver Goldsmith
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
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Oliver Goldsmith
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Is it one of my well-looking days, child? Am I in face to-day?