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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship, Mind, Sorrow
Oliver Goldsmith (1868). “The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays”, p.258

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Oliver Goldsmith
Sorrow, Mankind, Let Me
Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ; The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.8

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Oliver Goldsmith
Sorrow, Fields, Done
Oliver Goldsmith (1830). “The vicar of Wakefield, etc. (University edition.)”, p.217

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