People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded...

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded...

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...