Top 8 Quotes by Samuel Garth

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Weed, Firsts, Thrive

Sir Samuel Garth (1800). “The Poetical Works of Sir Sam. Garth, M.D., with the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. [With Illustrations.]”, p.76

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Samuel Garth

Medicine, Pills, Steel

Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.54

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

Samuel Garth

Rocks, Air, Desert

Sir Samuel Garth, Samuel Johnson (1807). “The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson”, p.44

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Samuel Garth

Pursue

Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

Samuel Garth

Tempest, Break

Sir Samuel Garth (1730). “The Dispensary. A Poem ... The Twelfth Edition. With Several Descriptions and Episodes Never Before Printed. [By Sir Samuel Garth.]”, p.24

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Samuel Garth

Gentleman, Natural, Let Me

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (centenary edition), revised by Ivor Evans (1975)

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

Samuel Garth

Running, Lines, Firsts

Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48