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• Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Autumn, Line 204...
• For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Autumn, Line 233...
• He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Autumn, Line 229...
• A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Summer, Line 1285...
• Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring, Line 996...
• And Mecca saddens at the long delay.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Summer, Line 979...
• Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring, Line 283...
• But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Summer, Line 81...
• Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
  -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Spring, Line 1...