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Erik Thomson

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How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
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Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.
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Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
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Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.
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Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds, And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prel...
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Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway, For his breeches he next day ...
JAMES THOMSON 1
A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1
Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON 1
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once ...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o'er you...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. ARTHUR THOMSON
The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The sw...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
JAMES THOMSON (1)
For nothing human foreign was to him.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is...
JAMES THOMSON (1)
The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's or...
J. ANDERSON THOMSON
The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is f...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even t...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no eco...
ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let m...
ERIK ESTRADA