What did Oliver Goldsmith mean by: How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland Copy
+ Thus ’tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Care, Chiefs, Hypocrisy, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Favors, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ They please, are pleas’d, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Ambitious, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Country, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Travel, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Ambitious, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Pleasure, Source, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Country, Home, Patriotic, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist. - Jean-Michel Cousteau Oceanographer · France
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not. - Jeb Corliss Skydiver · USA