• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

  Source: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14

  Thomas Gray
  British poet 1716-1771
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. sweetness
2. unseen
3. desert
4. waste

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