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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#country #curiosity #goes #guided #himself

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#always #company #end #feel #first

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#friendship #incompatible #other #passions #pity

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#art #harm #joke #raw #receive

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#improve #model #other #people #seldom

They say women and music should never be dated. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#music #never #say #should #they say

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#difference #great #great ideas #had #huge

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i