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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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And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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

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