Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grateful, Order, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1857). “Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior”, p.176

• While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Past, Heaven, World

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.7

• O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Luxury, Heaven, Decree

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.588

• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

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