Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Oliver Goldsmith
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Oliver Goldsmith
It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Learn the luxury of doing good.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Little things are great to little men.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Politeness, is the result of good sense and good nature.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Silence gives consent.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Silence is become his mother tongue.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.
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Oliver Goldsmith
That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.