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
men mind reason
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
mind body active
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
disappointment mind disappointing
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
happiness mind vain
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
laughter laughing mind
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
friendship mind sorrow
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
grief agony mind
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
thinking mind littles
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.
mind novel teach
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
gay mind crowns
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
science psychology mind
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
fond pursue
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