Thomas Gray Quotes About Fate

• El comercio cambia por completo el destino y el genio de las naciones, comunicando las artes y las opiniones, haciendo circular el dinero e introduciendo los materiales del lujo; primero abre y pule la mente, luego corrompe y enerva tanto ésta como el cuerpo.

  Thomas Gray

  Destino, Genio, Comercio

  "The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings".

• 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, 'T is folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Wise, Pain

  Oda a una perspectiva lejana del Eton College" (1747), l. 91

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

  Thomas Gray

  Fate, Limits, Vulgar

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 122

• Man's feeble race what ills await!
  Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
  Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
  And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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