Tag: Oliver Goldsmith

To the last moment of his breath

On hope the wretch relies;

And e’en the pang preceding death

Bids expectation rise.

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light,

Adorns and cheers our way;

And still, as darker grows the night,

Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

For he who fights and runs away

May live to fight another day;

But he who is in battle slain

Can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

Silence gives consent.

Oliver Goldsmith

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

For just experience tells; in every soil,

That those that think must govern those that toil.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith