Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Quotes from The Traveller — Oliver Goldsmith
1728–1774 Ireland
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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These little things are great to little man.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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Who can direct, when all pretend to know?
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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For just experience tells, in every soil,
That those who think must govern those that toil.
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity to make or find.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Goldsmith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.