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
fortune industry
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
running average risk
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
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.
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.
science linked
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
crime
Crime generally punishes itself.
integrity understanding ethics
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
sports home waiting
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
passion two pity
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
heart men compassion
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
curiosity together earth
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.