Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Gray (English Poet)

Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

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Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee’s collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude.
Thomas Gray

Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Sorrow

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Dying, Death

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Economics, Economy

Thought would destroy their paradise.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Thoughts, Paradise, Thinking

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Poverty, The Poor

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Smile

A favorite has no friend!
Thomas Gray
Topics: Hypocrisy

Alas, regardless of their doom,
the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Children

If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Faults, Perfection

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
Topics: Flowers

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Glory

Hard unkindness mocks the tear it forced to flow.
Thomas Gray

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, await alike the inevitable hour; the path of glory leads but to the grave.
Thomas Gray

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Topics: One liners, Poetry

Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Ignorance

Far from the madding crowd
Thomas Gray
Topics: Insanity

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
Thomas Gray
Topics: Morning

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