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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
James Thomson
Courage
Caution
Eye
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
James Thomson
Peace
War
Corruption
Disgrace
Man
State
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
James Thomson
Imagination
Nature
Creation
Gay
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
James Thomson
Life
Dream
Day
Night
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
James Thomson
Health
Exercise
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
Beauty
Nature
Enthusiasm
Magnificence
Reflection
Sentiment
Variety
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
James Thomson
Ingratitude
Mankind
Treason
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
James Thomson
Will
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
James Thomson
Life
May
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
James Thomson
Happiness
People
Idea
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.
James Thomson
Death
Life
Heart
Purpose
Mind
Will
World