7 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith about thinking

  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
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    As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

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  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
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    Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

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  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
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    The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

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  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
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    I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

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