"Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue,……" — Thomas Gray
"Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame."
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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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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the…
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set…
— George Carlin
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that…
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There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.
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