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61 Quotes for 'Thomas Gray' in the Database.
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Thomas Gray Quotes
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Topic: Solitude
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 19)
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Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Topic: Sorrow
Source: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
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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 own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
Topic: Suffering
Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
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In climes beyond the solar road.
Topic: Sun
Source: Progress of Poesy
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The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.
Topic: Tears
Source: Eton College (st. 5)
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Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Topic: Tears
Source: Progress of Poesy (III, 1, l. 12)
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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Topic: Tears
Source: Sonnet--On the Death of Mr. West
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Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye,
That mocks the tear if forced to flow.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Eton College (st. 8)
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!
Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.
Topic: Visions
Source: The Bard (III, 1, l. 11)
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And to hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
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From toil we wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (l. 87)
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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly rising o'er the azure realm
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.
Topic: Zephyrs
Source: The Bard (pt. II, st. 2, l. 9)
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