"What female heart can gold despise? What cat……" — Thomas Gray
"What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?"
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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 Averse Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and…
— Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming…
— Otto Schily
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When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was…
— Thomas Jane
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very…
— Eva Longoria
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To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never…
— Alberto Korda
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
— Aeschylus
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When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
— Morgan Spurlock
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Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning…
— Laurance Labadie
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I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even…
— James MacArthur
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
— Rahul Gandhi
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