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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. - Oliver Go

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Smell (scent)
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Other Quotes from
Psychology
category

The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Psychology

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley

Category:
Psychology

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. – Sigmund Freud, attributed

Category:
Psychology

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. – Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin: Psychology, 1973

Category:
Psychology

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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. – Claude Bernard

Category:
Imagination

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. – Beatrice Wood

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Art

I have four shelves covered with journals that Ive written. Dad and I are writing songs together. Ive probably written 100 songs. – Miley Cyrus

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dad

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. – Desiderius Erasmus

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