"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,……" — James Thomson
"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
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James Thomson
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16 Quotes by James Thomson
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Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the…
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral…
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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
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Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has…
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Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
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I have no grand scheme.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
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When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love…
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not…
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
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