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“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

“By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 9.

“Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 1.

“Good people all, with one acord,
Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word —
From those who spoke her praise.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 1.
The Bee (1759)

“Measures, not men, have always been my mark.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act II.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night — a stocking all the day!”

Oliver Goldsmith

Description of an Author's Bedchamber (1760).

“Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 185.

“His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 61.

“His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 46.

“I was ever of the 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.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1, opening lines.

“The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 13.

“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.

“In all the silent manliness of grief.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 384.

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.

“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”

Oliver Goldsmith

No. 3 (Oct. 20, 1759).
The Bee (1759)

“He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 126.

“The better sort here pretend to the utmost compassion for animals of every kind. To hear them speak, a stranger would be apt to imagine they could hardly hurt the gnat that stung them: they seem so tender and so full of pity, that one would take them for the harmless friends of the whole creation; the protectors of the meanest insect or reptile that was privileged with existence. And yet, would you believe it? I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals toasted up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity and they eat the objects of their compassion.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Citizen of the World

The Citizen of the World (1760–1761), Letter XV https://books.google.it/books?id=cIELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA44.

“And learn the luxury of doing good.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 22.