Thomas Gray Quotes

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• To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
• Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
• He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted…
• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless…
• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
• Low on his funeral couch he lies!
• Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He…
• A fav'rite has no friend!
• From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace…
• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing…
• 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…
• When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
• If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
• And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.
• Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him…
• Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
• And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
• Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
• Ah, tell them they are men!

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