"Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr……" — Thomas Gray
"Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm."
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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 Azure Quotes
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation,…
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
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When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set…
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When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock…
— John O'Donohue
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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans…
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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