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
interesting youth subjects
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
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.
real tyrants slave
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
men land decay
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
wisdom causes effects
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
sympathy felt
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all
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.
country patriotic home
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
crush sweet adversity
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
children home night
At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
girl mom daughter
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
wish rich appearance
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
love-is pleasure charm
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
money dollars thousand
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.