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
enemy opponents enthusiasm
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
life children fall
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
pride charity faults
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
life travel journey
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
friendship book reading
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
hope bait hook
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
wise home taste
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
lasts found circumstances
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
humanity world conscious
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
people desire thousand
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
creation modest whole
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
life race ability
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
love matrimony
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
anniversary wedding wife
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.