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Letter "J" » James Thomson Quotes
«Base Envy withers at another's joy,/ And hates that excellence it cannot reach.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«So stands the statue that enchants the world,/ So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,/ The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.»
«But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?»
«But yonder comes the powerful king of day,/ Rejoicing in the east.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove/ An unrelenting foe to love;/ And when we meet a mutual heart,/ Come in between and bid us part?»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
«Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
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