"Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?"

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Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.61

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#Lying Quotes #Angel Quotes #Snow Quotes

“How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.”
“I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.”
“Strategists who donâ€™t take time to think are just planners.”
“God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.”
“She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.”
“If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.”
“Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.”
“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”

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