Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning."
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Dew
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John Ford
Film Director
"I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . ."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb."
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"And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture."
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"I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too."
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"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake."
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"In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave."
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"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven."
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"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber."
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"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf."
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"The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks."
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"Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor."
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"Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews."
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"A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green."
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"The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent."
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"Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence."
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"The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten."
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"We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow."
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"The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."
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