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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

Topics

Excellence Virtue Weed Out Vice

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Confidence Intelligence Spirit Out

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

Anatoli Boukreev

Time Succeed Die You Ahead April

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

Nature People Human Nature Heaven

If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

Johnathan Joseph

You Way Balls Top Guy Going

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

God Say Nowhere Hebrew Does

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

You Way Try Never Two Colour

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Freedom Purpose Liberty Sincerity

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

Change Think Look Always Changing

I'm demanding and critical about myself. It's something my parents passed on to me.

Myself Parents Me Something Critical

I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.

Work Friendship Time Football Me Go

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

Education Music Job People Me First

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

Live Government Support People White

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