Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gav… - Oliver Goldsmith

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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and physician.

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Alternative Names: Oliver Goldsmit • Doctor Goldsmith • Oliverio Goldsmith • Oliverus Goldsmith • Olver Goldsmith • Olivier Goldsmith • Dottor Golssmith • Tom Telescope • Solomon Winlove • James Willington • Inspired Idiot

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To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e'en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.

The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.

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