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| Oliver Goldsmith
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Emits a brighter ray. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Handsome is that handsome does. Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way. Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves. When once destroyed can never be supplied. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. |
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