James Thomson Quotes

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• Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope…
• Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
• That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
• More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
• Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
• I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of…
• Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
• Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
• Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
• But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
• For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
• The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind…
• Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
• I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
• 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
• Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health…

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