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Quote by Ben Johnson
Have you seen but a bright lily grow,Before rude hands have to

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?…
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! – Ben Johnson

Other quotes by Ben Johnson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear ont, and tightly, too, an I live, ifaith. – Ben Johnson

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Drinking
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Ill give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. – Ben Johnson

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Snow
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In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months,
It thaws only once
And never when I am quite soba. – Anon.

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. – Sir Walter Scott

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Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean. – Confucius

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Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! – Emily Bront

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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I dont want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems. – Jon Fishman

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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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Most of the noted literary men have indulged in the prudent habit of selecting favorite passages for future reference. – Charles F. Schutz, Sayings: Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, 1915

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