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

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Other Quotes from
Snow
category

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird. – Wallace Stevens

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Snow

These messengers will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. – Herodotus

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Snow

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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Snow

A snowflake is one of Gods most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! – Anon.

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Snow

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I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. Wed meet, theyd come and seek me out, wed talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. – Wole Soyinka

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