Top 17 James Thomson Quotes

#1. 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

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#2. Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

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#3. Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'

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#4. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

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#5. Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

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#6. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

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#7. 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 nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

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#8. That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

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#9. But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

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#10. For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

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#11. 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 or will.

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#12. I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

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#13. The Wine of Love
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.

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#14. 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
Of all our universe, with desperate hope
To find some solace for your wild unrest.

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#15. Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death

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#16. More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

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#17. Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

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