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An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard QUOTES

An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard QUOTES

1 " The paths of glory lead but to the grave. "

― Thomas Gray , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

2 " Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own. "

― Thomas Gray , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

3 " 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 , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

4 " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "

― Thomas Gray , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

5 " Let not Ambition mock their useful toil "

― Thomas Gray , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

6 " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. "

― Thomas Gray , An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard