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
children endearing followed good share
Even children followed with endearing wile,/ And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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That's a good girl. I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie.
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The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Good people all, of every sort, / Give ear unto my song; / And if you do find it wondrous short, / It cannot hold you long.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
children men good-man
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
subject winds
Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
guarded requires scarcely sentinel virtue worth
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative
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Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, / More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. / His house was known to all the vagrant train, / He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.