Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - Page 13

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• 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

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• A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Night, Caps, Brows

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East”, p.94

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• The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wall, Night, Doors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1805). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc”, p.32

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• Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Truth, Lips

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 179

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• The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Men, Poison

  "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" l. 29 (1766)

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• By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Children, Caring

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.11

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• A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Care, Made

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.28

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• Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.258

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• The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gambling, Games, Twelve

  Oliver Goldsmith “the traveller and the deserted village”, CUP Archive

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• And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Sky, Bird

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.64

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• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gambling, Tables, Fortune

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• Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller”, p.284

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• If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Looks, World

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “A history of the earth, and animated nature”, p.2

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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Pleasure, Charm

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

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• The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Adventure, Scholar

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.475

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• The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Form, Quarry

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

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• All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Life Is

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.47

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• The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
  Still, still on hope relies;
  And every pang that rends the heart
  Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Heart, Expectations

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.120

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• Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Mankind, Let Me

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ; The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.8

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• Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Peppers, Callous, Please

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.31

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• He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sarcastic, Coffins, Handsome

  The Good Natured Man Act I

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• There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Students, Pleasure, Attending

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.239

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