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Thomas Gray

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Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.


— Thomas Gray


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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.


— Thomas Gray


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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.


— Thomas Gray


#beyond #care #come #doom #ills

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.


— Thomas Gray


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'Tis folly to be wise.


— Thomas Gray


#tis #wise

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.


— Thomas Gray


#commerce #fate #genius #nations

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.


— Thomas Gray


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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.


— Thomas Gray


#folly #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #tis #where

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.


— Thomas Gray


#draw #eyes #faults #forehead #hat

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.


— Thomas Gray


#grave #lead #paths






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[citation needed] These include:
"The Paths of Glory"
"Celestial fire"
"Some mute inglorious Milton"
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
"The unlettered muse"
"Kindred spirit"
Gray also wrote light verse including Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold FiThomas Grays a mock elegy concerning Horace Walpole's cat. [citation needed] It contains many phrases which have entered the common English lexicon either on their own or as quoted in other works.

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet letter-writer classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard publiThomas Grayd in 1751.

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