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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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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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News
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Snow
category

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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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

Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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

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The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. – Morris Mandel

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering. – Proverb

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The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. – Alfred Tonnelle

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