Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Age
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Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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