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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
sentinel, sentinels, The Sentinel
«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»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
gaieties, gaiety, gay and, peculiarly, the continent, Tho, transplant, transplanted, transplants
«A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond»
«Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossomed, fence, furze, skirts, straggling, unprofitably, yon
«I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Delusions, displeased, harmless