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Thomas Gray Quotes about Life

Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.

Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard”

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.201

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.27