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
money dollars thousand
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
ambition forever ambitious
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
different looks world
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.
strength world indifference
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
winter may lap
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
hope expectations lasts
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
whales littles fishes
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
volcanoes size may
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
heirs world creation
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
failure long contentment
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.