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Thomas Gray - From the Aging category:
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Commerce category:
- b.1716 d.1771...
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Complaining category:
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r / The moping owl does to the moon complain. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Contemplation category:
To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Ego category:
-in a letter to Horace Walpole, February 25, 1768...
I shall be but a shrimp of an author. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Fame category:
A favorite has no friend! (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Future category:
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. / Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Goodness category:
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Gratitude category:
- Ode for Music...
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, / The bee's collected treasures sweet, / Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet / The still small voice of gratitude. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Innocence category:
Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Nature category:
-b.1716 d.1771...
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Obscurity category:
-b.1716 d.1771...
Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Religion category:
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Repose category:
-Descent of Odin...
Now my weary lips I close; / Leave me, leave me to repose! (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Rewards category:
-b.1716 d.1771...
Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes / And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; / Nor all that glisters, gold. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Sadness category:
And weep the more, because I weep in vain. (Thomas Gray)
Thomas Gray - From the Suffering category:
-Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1742...
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)
Thomas Gray - From the Wisdom category:
No more; where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise. (Thomas Gray)
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