Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Enthusiasm

Quotes about: Enthusiasm

• Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Enemy, Opponents, Enthusiasm

• It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Feelings, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.432

• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Enthusiasm

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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