"And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe." — Thomas Gray
"And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe."
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Thomas Gray
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74 Quotes by Thomas Gray
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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond…
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Thought would destroy their paradise.
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Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd…
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Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The…
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To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his…
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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine…
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
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Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air…
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The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a…
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Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet…
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More Amid Quotes
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one of 292 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
— Buffalo Bill
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from…
— R. H. Tawney
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
— Epicurus
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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