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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. -- Thomas Tusse
• Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
  Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears....
• Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
  -- Richard Crashaw (c. 1616-1650) -- Wishes to his Supposed Mistre...
• Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers.
  -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- To Music, to becalm his Feve...
• May your daughters be like the flowers in the field -- wither away and fade.
• What a day may bring, a day may take away.
• Midas was into golden showers.
• Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli...