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Thomas Gray Quote: “There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.”

51. “There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.”

53. “One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “A fav’rite has no friend!”

54. “A fav’rite has no friend!”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Where’er the oak’s thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where’er the rude and moss-grown beech O’er-canopies the glade, Beside some water’s rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.”

55. “Where’er the oak’s thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where’er the rude and moss-grown beech O’er-canopies the glade, Beside some water’s rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn’d from Bullen’s eyes.”

56. “When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn’d from Bullen’s eyes.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!”

57. “How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “I shall be but a shrimp of an author.”

58. “I shall be but a shrimp of an author.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”

59. “Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer’s operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.”

60. “The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer’s operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Ah, tell them they are men!”

61. “Ah, tell them they are men!”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.”

62. “Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.”

— Thomas Gray

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

63. “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

Thomas Gray Quote: “In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.”

64. “In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Bright-eyed Fancy, hov’ring o’er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”

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

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?”

66. “As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.”

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

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Low on his funeral couch he lies!”

68. “Low on his funeral couch he lies!”

— Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray Quote: “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil.”

69. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil.”

— Thomas Gray

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