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My hip surgery did slow me down a little. I wasn't as quick around the boat as other people.


Bob Thomson

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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 No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
BOB DYLAN In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our las...
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