Oliver Goldsmith

Ireland
10 Nov 1728 // 4 Apr 1774
Writer, Poet

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On Humour:

The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.

Postscript

On Madness:

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

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

On Kings:

The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize

On Madness:

The dog, to gain his private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

On Example:

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

On Argument:

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.

Vicar of Wakefield

On Love:

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

The Good-Natured Man

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

The Traveller

On Speech:

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The Bee

On Self-confidence:

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
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