"Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The……" — Thomas Gray
"Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor."
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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 Annals Quotes
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
— Hugh Miller
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire…
— Tony Snow
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
— Pope Leo X
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul…
— Vito Fossella
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