| 61 Famous Quotes by Thomas Gray
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“Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.”
Fire Quotes Source: Elegy (46)
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“E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
Fire Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 23), Gray says it was suggested by Plutarch
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“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
Evening Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard
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“There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year
By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;
The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,
And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.”
Footsteps Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard, his manuscript
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“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 14)
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“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”
Ocean Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 14)
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“And read their history in a nation's eyes.”
History Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 16)
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“From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.”
Brooks Quotes Source: The Progress of Poesy (I, i, l. 3)
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“The Attic warbler pours her throat
Responsive to the cuckoo's note.”
Cuckoos Quotes Source: Ode on the Spring
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“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”
Bribery Quotes Source: On His Own Character
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“They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.”
Joy Quotes Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 4)
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“To warm their little loves the birds complain.”
Birds Quotes Source: Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
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“Tho' he inherit
Not the pride, nor ample pinion,
That the Theban eagle bear,
Sailing with supreme dominion
Thro' the azure deep of air.”
Eagles Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy
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“The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.”
Tears Quotes Source: Eton College (st. 5)
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“Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”
Tears Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy (III, 1, l. 12)
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“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
Tears Quotes Source: Sonnet--On the Death of Mr. West
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“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”
Architecture Quotes Source: A Long Story
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“As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?”
Posterity Quotes Source: Letter to Dr. Wharton
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“The still small voice of gratitude.”
Gratitude Quotes Source: For Music (st. 5)
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“To brisk notes in cadence beating
Glance their many-twinkling feet.”
Dancing Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy (pt. I, st. 3, l. 10)
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“Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.”
Resolution Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 22)
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“In climes beyond the solar road.”
Sun Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy
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“Blasted with excess of light.”
Light Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy
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“Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.”
Childhood Quotes Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 6)
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“Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.”
Sorrow Quotes Source: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
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