Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
science sea sailing
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
science linked
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
goodbye brother pain
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
lonely cheer loneliness
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
bees amusement should
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
fortune industry
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
law generosity duty
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
inspirational-life men long
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
sarcastic handsome coffins
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
woe poverty firsts
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
crime
Crime generally punishes itself.
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
happiness mind vain
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
return giver rejected
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.