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Penury Quotes by Thomas Gray
- Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
- But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze…
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- Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. — Thomas Gray
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- Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows… — M H Abrams
- In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge