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“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.

“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,
Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Their level life is but a mouldering fire,
Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 219.

Life , Soul , Strong

“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 book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3.

Heart , Clothes

“It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 10.

Time , Happiness

“Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 109.

World , Way , Past

“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.

Nature

“And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.

Friendship , Sleep , Wealth

“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.

Heart

“In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 211.

Learning

“To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e'en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

Death , Hope

“Who peppered the highest was surest to please.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 112.

“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”

Oliver Goldsmith

The Haunch of Venison (1776).

Health , Hurt

“The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

Bee , Time

“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.

“Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 409.

Home , Training

“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.

Art , Fashion , Heart , Joy

“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.

Dogs

“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.

Art , Heart