| 61 Famous Quotes by Thomas Gray
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“Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
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“While bright-eyed science watches round.”
Science Quotes Source: Ode for Music--Chorus (l. 11)
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“Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.”
Misery Quotes Source: Ode on Eton College
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“No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.”
Charity Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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“When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.”
Charity Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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“And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.”
Mercy Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 17)
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“The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are open paradise.”
Paradise Quotes Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes (l. 53)
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“. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.”
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“A favorite has no friend!”
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“Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.”
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“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.”
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