James Thomson Quotes

• Yet I strode on austere; No hope could have no fear.

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• As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.

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• The City is of Night; perchance of Death, But certainly of Night.

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• The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet Sleep is not for the weary brain; The pitiless hours like years and ages creep, A night seems term less hell.

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• As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above that plain Come flying on our track.

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• A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly marked among the fry: He had a roguish twinkle in his eye.

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• There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

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• Welcome, kindred glooms! Congenial horrors, hail!

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• Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!

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• Or sighed and looked unutterable things.

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• An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

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• Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

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• When Britain first, at heaven’s command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: ‘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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• Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death.

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

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• ‘Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

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

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

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Today's Anniversary - 11th April

Births

• 1963 - Mark Thomas
• 1934 - Mark Strand
• 1933 - Tony Brown
• 1908 - Leo Rosten
• 1961 - Vincent Gallo

Deaths

• 2012 - Ahmed Ben Bella
• 1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin
• 1916 - Richard Harding Davis
• 1987 - Primo Levi
• 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut