Oliver Goldsmith Quote Explained: Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest Explain

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Playwright and novelist

· Ireland

Ambitious

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest Explain

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

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

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends… it depends on change.

Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water’s depths, towards fear. Explain

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

During a warm winter rain … the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

I’m just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely

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