Samuel Garth Quotes
1661–1719 England
Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719) was an English physician and poet.
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As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.
The Dispensary (1699)
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.
Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
None please the fancy, who offend the ear.
To die is landing on some silent shore
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er.
I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Hard was their lodging, homely was their food;
For all their luxury was doing good.
A barren superfluity of words.
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:
So lines that from their parallel decline,
More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
The Dispensary (1699)
For all their luxury was doing good.