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
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The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
virtue guarded scarce
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
hands selfishness virtue
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
speak virtue
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
musical taste
With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
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Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
govern thoughts-and-thinking
Those that think must govern those that toil.
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To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho
beside fence
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.
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As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest
fond pursue
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.