Oliver Goldsmith - Love Quotes

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the busy whisper circling round
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declar'd how much he knew,
'T was certain he could write and cipher too.

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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

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A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the bust whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.

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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

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

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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

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I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

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