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 There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. Oliver Goldsmith attending pleasure students To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Oliver Goldsmith method poverty poor It world be well had we more misers than we have among us. Oliver Goldsmith economy wells world What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion Oliver Goldsmith fashion names men The sports of children satisfy the child. Oliver Goldsmith sports children See me, how calm I am. Oliver Goldsmith calumny calm people There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it. Oliver Goldsmith endeavor talent people Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. Oliver Goldsmith beggary wretchedness Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit. Oliver Goldsmith perfect play hands 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. Oliver Goldsmith eccentric mind thinking The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain. Oliver Goldsmith cups pain age An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. Oliver Goldsmith crowns appearance half The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use. Oliver Goldsmith use kingdoms may Error is always talkative. Oliver Goldsmith talkative errors talking Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Oliver Goldsmith dog sweet children All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. Oliver Goldsmith sullen stubborn philosophy Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it. Oliver Goldsmith giving philosophy heaven Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them. Oliver Goldsmith regret looks way Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. Oliver Goldsmith teach novel mind Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Oliver Goldsmith eye nuts lying
