James Thomson Quotes (52 Quotes)


    Crowned with the sickle, and wheaten sheaf, While Autumn, nodding oer the yellow plain, Comes jovial on.

    A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate; Of mighty monarchs.

    Hail Independence, hail Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul

    Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

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


    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?

    Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.

    For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.

    A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard be-seems, Who, void of envy, guile, and lust of gain, On virtue still, and natures pleasing themes, Poured from his unpremeditated strain.



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

    Gather the rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying, And that same flower that blooms today, tomorrow shall be dying

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

    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.


    Welcome, ye shades ye bowery Thickets hail Ye lofty Pines ye venerable Oaks Ye Ashes wild, resounding oer the steep Delicious is your shelter to the soul.

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

    The vilest thing must be less vile than Thou From whom it had its being, God and Lord.


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

    For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.

    An elegant, sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

    We've been optimizing (culture) media on the existing stem cell lines since 1998, but it has only been recently that there have been dramatic improvements. This is the first time it has been possible for us to derive new cell lines in completely defined conditions in medium that completely lacks animal products.

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

    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.

    Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief,'O Lord, my heart is black with guile, Of sinners I am chief.'


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


    The City is of Night perchance of Death, But certainly of Night for never there Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath After the dewy dawning's cold gray air.


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


    These as they change, Almighty Father these; Are but the varied God. The rolling year; Is full of Thee.


    Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.

    Human embryonic stem cells give researchers reliable access to these neurons for the first time, and it will now be possible to perform experiments to unravel why these neurons die in Parkinson's.

    Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue; Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble; Of Nature's own creating.

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

    A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky . . .

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

    But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the East.

    See, Winter comes to rule the varied world, Sullen and sad.

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

    Although the creation of this center is very important, I hope that NIH will ultimately decide to fund additional similar centers across the United States to support this rapidly expanding field,

    Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part.

    Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.

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

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


    More James Thomson Quotations (Based on Topics)


    Time - God - Happiness - World - Life - Night - Charity - Winter - Death & Dying - Philosophy - Vice & Virtue - Man - Liberty & Freedom - Dreams - Nature - Health - Fate & Destiny - Horse - Morality - View All James Thomson Quotations

    Related Authors


    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Melissa Auf der Maur - Lisa Marie Presley - LaToya Jackson - John Legend - Ja Rule - Gloria Estefan - Debbie Gibson - Alanis Morissette - Aaron Carter


Page 1 of 2 1 2

Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections