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

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

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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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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?

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

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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Musician

Born: September 11th, 1700

Died: August 27th, 1748

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