Quotes of James Thomson - somelinesforyou

“ Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ”

- James Thomson

“ Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. ”

- James Thomson

“ Health is the vital principle of bliss. ”

- James Thomson

“ Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ 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? ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ And see where surely Winter passes off,Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts:His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,The shatter'd forest, and the ravag'd vale;While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch,Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. ”

- James Thomson

“ But who can paintLike nature? Can Imagination boast,Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ”

- James Thomson

“ So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. ”

- James Thomson

“ 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 on sea nor shore shall fail. ”

- James Thomson

“ Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once the wonder, terror, and delight Of distant nations; whose remotest shore Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave. ”

- James Thomson

“ But who can paintLike nature? Can Imagination boast,Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ”

- James Thomson

“ Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. ”

- James Thomson

“ Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ”

- James Thomson

“ 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 on sea nor shore shall fail. ”

- James Thomson

“ Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ”

- James Thomson

“ From brightening fields of ether fair-disclosed,Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth;He comes, attended by the sultry Hours,And ever-fanning breezes, on his way. ”

- James Thomson

“ 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 on sea nor shore shall fail. ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. ”

- James Thomson

“ Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. ”

- James Thomson

“ Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. ”

- James Thomson

“ And see where surely Winter passes off,Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts:His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,The shatter'd forest, and the ravag'd vale;While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch,Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. ”

- James Thomson

“ For nothing human foreign was to him. ”

- James Thomson

“ From brightening fields of ether fair-disclosed,Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth;He comes, attended by the sultry Hours,And ever-fanning breezes, on his way. ”

- James Thomson

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson
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