"Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze……" — Thomas Gray
"Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul."
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Thomas Gray
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74 Quotes by Thomas Gray
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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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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th'…
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More Chill Quotes
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit.…
— Usain Bolt
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
— Thomas Carlyle
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite…
— David O. McKay
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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He…
— Gwen Stefani
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A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a…
— Stephen Fry
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
— Kelly Miller
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their…
— William Shakespeare
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