We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die. Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes From Oliver Goldsmith Thus let me hold thee to my heart, Oliver Goldsmith careheartlife So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Oliver Goldsmith mountainloudcountry Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. Oliver Goldsmith simple-lifeanxietycomfort To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Oliver Goldsmith charmsimplicityart 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 clotheskindnessheart 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 husbandcharacterchildren 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 astonishmentlightningflames Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. Oliver Goldsmith good-manmenchildren 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 circlesvoicesquares With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. Oliver Goldsmith alivehumilityenough All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins. Oliver Goldsmith linkedaccountsscience 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 sailingseascience Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. Oliver Goldsmith amusementbeeswork Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes. Oliver Goldsmith daughtergirlmom Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more. Oliver Goldsmith dollarsmoneythousand The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Oliver Goldsmith ambitiousambitionforever Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith criticismwritingworld And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith intelligentscienceknowledge As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. Oliver Goldsmith disappointingdisappointmentmind As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth. Oliver Goldsmith educationscienceinteresting
