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Oliver Goldsmith — Portrait after a picture by After Joshua Reynolds (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician

1728–1774

3 quotes.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Economics
- Money
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e’en tho’ vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remain’d to pray.
The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Prayer
- Religion

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