Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Thomas Gray
Life
A quote by Thomas Gray
From the source
Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 19.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.