“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
Juvenal
“We're very happy. He's like a big, uncut diamond. You haven't even seen him yet.”
Steve Dickson
“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”
Walt Whitman
“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”
William Shakespeare
“The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
“By cool Siloam's shady rill / How sweet the lily grows! / How sweet the breath beneath the hill / Of Sharon's dewy rose!”
Richard Heber
