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Thomas Gray Quotes

«Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, / Beneath the good how far - but far above the great.»
«Th' applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin to despise,/ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes.»
«The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me.»
«Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way»
«Owls would have hooted in St Peter's choir,/ And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's.»
«He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet)
«The paths of glory lead but to the grave.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: Paths of Glory
«Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, / Their human passions now no more.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: triumphs
«The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints not of woe»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: brightly, glow, hues, tint, tinted, tints
«Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: bribe, importune

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