Samuel Garth Quotes

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Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
None please the fancy, who offend the ear.

Samuel Garth

Hard was their lodging, homely was their food;
For all their luxury was doing good.

Samuel Garth

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

Samuel Garth

To die is landing on some silent shore
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er.

Samuel Garth

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

Samuel Garth

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

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

Samuel Garth

The Patient's Ears remorseless he assails, Murders with Jargon where his Med'cine fails.

Samuel Garth