Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
1728–1774 Ireland
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and physician.
- Ireland
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- Novelists
- Playwrights
- Poets
Also known as: Goldsmith, Oliver
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Here while the courtier glitters in brocade
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Nobody with me at sea but myself.
Learn the luxury of doing good.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Goldsmith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.