Quotes by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray

A fav’rite has no friend!

Friendship

No Friends

Rite

Ah, tell them they are men!

Men

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

Laughing

Laughter

Woe

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Vain

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Book

Fool

Writing

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

Fate

Limits

Vulgar

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov’ring o’er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Breathe

Fancy

Rings

Can honor’s voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Dust

Honor

Voice

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

Commerce

Fate

Genius

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

Daughter

Iron

Power

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Air

Angel

Atheist

Beauty

Belief

Believe

Bliss

Blood

Blow

Book

Breathe

Brooks

Cat

Cells

Charity

Childhood

Commerce

Country

Dark

Daughter

Death

Deceit

Destruction

Dust

Earth

Eye

Fall

Fame

Fancy

Fate

Father

Flames

Flower

Fool

Form

Friendship

Funeral

Genius

Glory

Gold

Gratitude

Graves

Happiness

Hate

Heart

Helping

Honor

Hope

Hue

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Quotes by Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray

A fav’rite has no friend!

Ah, tell them they are men!

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov’ring o’er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Can honor’s voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

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