Source: The Poems of Garth, and Tickell
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Famous Samuel Garth Quotes
“Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Sam. Garth, M.D., with the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. [With Illustrations.]
“I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
Source: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
“Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.”
Source: The Dispensary. A Poem ... The Twelfth Edition. With Several Descriptions and Episodes Never Before Printed. [By Sir Samuel Garth.]
“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.”
Source: The Poems of Garth, and Tickell
“As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson