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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

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.

Oliver Goldsmith
Pain, Age, Cups
Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.399

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

Oliver Goldsmith
Age, Desire, Increase
Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “Poems, Plays and Essays”, p.310

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Oliver Goldsmith
Reading, Age, Instruction
Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Oliver Goldsmith
Retirement, Age, Crowns
'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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

Oliver Goldsmith
Talking, Age, Whispering
Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.52

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?

Oliver Goldsmith
Wish, Age, Pleasure
Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author”, p.258

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