Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Education, Science, Interesting

  Oliver Goldsmith (1844). “Poems, Plays and Essays”, p.279

• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Crowns

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

• The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Age, Cups

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.399

• A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  School, Boys, Years

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.138

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