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Thomas Gray Inspirational Quotes (55)

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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 to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.
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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 still small voice of gratitude.
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Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
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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.
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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.
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But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
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Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
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Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
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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 smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
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And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
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We frolic while 'tis May.
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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From toil he 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.
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In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
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Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.
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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.
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Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
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How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!
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One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
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As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
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Thought would destroy their paradise.
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O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.
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