The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes From Oliver Goldsmith Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. Oliver Goldsmith woe poverty firsts The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. Oliver Goldsmith poverty may world And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. Oliver Goldsmith fool praying You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam. Oliver Goldsmith marriage done thinking It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman. Oliver Goldsmith favors character country Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, Oliver Goldsmith patriotic home country As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us. Oliver Goldsmith lost-love mother life Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue. Oliver Goldsmith prudence virtue want The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Oliver Goldsmith love life looks The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. Oliver Goldsmith quarry form life All the bloomy flush of life is fled. Oliver Goldsmith life-is life The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Oliver Goldsmith hope expectations heart In all my wanderings round this world of care, Oliver Goldsmith grief hope humble The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith future hope views Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. Oliver Goldsmith attempting certain politics The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Oliver Goldsmith smile laughter happiness Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination. Oliver Goldsmith entertainment taste imagination Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Oliver Goldsmith decay land men Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Oliver Goldsmith coward strength justice Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, Oliver Goldsmith friends dwelling blessing
