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And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.
— Thomas Gray
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
— Thomas Browne
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold. — Thomas Gray
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
— Thomas Gray
The still small voice of gratitude.
— Thomas Gray
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. — Thomas Gray
Down here everything was dark, but up there the gray conglomerate was being struck by the final light of day to an unanswerable brilliance.
— Thomas Pynchon
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.
— Thomas Gray
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
— Thomas Gray
Ah, tell them they are men!
— Thomas Gray
A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES
— Thomas Gray
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
— Thomas Gray
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
— Thomas Gray
Hell is full of good intentions.
— Thomas Gray
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast. — Thomas Gray
A fav'rite has no friend!
— Thomas Gray
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
— Thomas Gray
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
— Thomas Gray
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
— Thomas Gray
'Tis folly to be wise.
— Thomas Gray
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
— Thomas Gray
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
— Thomas Gray
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
— Thomas Gray
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
— Thomas Gray
We frolic while 'tis May.
— Thomas Gray
O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, moveThe bloom of young Desire and purple light of love. — Thomas Gray
To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
— Thomas Gray
Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.
— Thomas Gray
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
— Thomas Gray
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
— Thomas Gray
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
— Thomas Gray
Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
— Thomas Gray
Low on his funeral couch he lies!
— Thomas Gray
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
— Thomas Gray
Thought would destroy their paradise.
— Thomas Gray
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
— Thomas Gray
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
— Thomas Gray
Rich with the spoils of time.
— Thomas Gray
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
— Thomas Gray
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
— Thomas Gray
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
— Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
— Christopher Smart
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.
— Thomas Gray
