Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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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.

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

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

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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...

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

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.

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...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

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...

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...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

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

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

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

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

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

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.