Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes From Oliver Goldsmith Thus let me hold thee to my heart, Oliver Goldsmith care heart life So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Oliver Goldsmith mountain loud country Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. Oliver Goldsmith simple-life anxiety comfort To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Oliver Goldsmith charm simplicity art A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. Oliver Goldsmith clothes kindness heart She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Oliver Goldsmith husband character children This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. Oliver Goldsmith astonishment lightning flames Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. Oliver Goldsmith good-man men children As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. Oliver Goldsmith circles voice squares With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. Oliver Goldsmith alive humility enough All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins. Oliver Goldsmith linked accounts science The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. Oliver Goldsmith sailing sea science Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. Oliver Goldsmith amusement bees work Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes. Oliver Goldsmith daughter girl mom Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more. Oliver Goldsmith dollars money thousand The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Oliver Goldsmith ambitious ambition forever Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith criticism writing world And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith intelligent science knowledge As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. Oliver Goldsmith disappointing disappointment mind As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth. Oliver Goldsmith education science interesting
