"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." — Thomas Gray
"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."
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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 Crowds Quotes
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
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Never follow the crowd.
— Bernard Baruch
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with…
— Justin Bieber
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his…
— Buffalo Bill
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap…
— Emily Blunt
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
— Edward de Bono
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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