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Thomas Gray Quotes: As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
         

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?


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If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.



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Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.



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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!



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Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.



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To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.



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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.





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