Gnats Quotes
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Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies.
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More Gnats Quotes
Surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
john muir— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), chapter 5: Young Hunters
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book II, line 732.
