Samuel Garth Quotes

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

  Samuel Garth

  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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.

  Samuel Garth

  Spring, Blow, Air

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