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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
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I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
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Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
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Let the pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet of Bedlam.
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Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . .
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barr...
SAINT AMBROSE
There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
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AKHENATON
Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong; No longer wilt thou love me,-- ...
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Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year.
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HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
IEYASU TOKUGAWA
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for th...
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
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And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not ...
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With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country...
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When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
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DAVID LEVITHAN
Confront Thy Fear Once, And Thou Shalt Be Afraid No More.
SAHIL KARANJE
Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
HORACE WALPOLE
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
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But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken...
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl...
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Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, To...
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Pen and ink is wit's plough
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If life’s pen; passion is ink!
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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
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Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
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And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the s...
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
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He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou ...
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Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy s...
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For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemo...
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When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
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JOHN WESLEY
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Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
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IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
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Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his h...
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
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He was not of an age, but fo...
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
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Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe...
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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
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I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
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Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
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And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE