4 Thomas Gray Quotes on Truth

Thomas Gray quotes on truth

6. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

16. To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

20. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.

47. And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.