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“Art thou a pen, whose task shall be
To drown in ink
What writers think?
Oh, wisely write,
That pages white
Be not the worse for ink and thee.”
Ethel Lynn Beers (Ethelinda Eliot) Quotes Source: The Gold Nugget
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“Whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.”
Dorothy Berry Quotes Source: Sonnet, prefixed to Diana Primrose's "Chair of Pearls"
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“Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Richelieu (act II, sc. 2)
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“From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the
sword.
[Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. XXI, mem. 4, subsec. 4)
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“Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill!
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,
That might instrument of little men!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 7)
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“The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing
Made of a quill from an angel's wing.”
Henry Constable Quotes Source: Sonnet, found in Notes to Todd's "Milton", vol. V, p. 454 (ed. 1826)
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“For what made that in glory shine so long
But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?”
Sir John Davies Quotes Source: Bien Venu
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“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Oration
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“Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.
[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Oration
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“The pen became a clarion.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Monte Cassino (st. 13)
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“The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun:
Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 208), (translation by Wright), on a shorthand writer
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“The sacred Dove a quill did lend
From her high-soaring wing.”
Sir Francis Nethersole Quotes Source: prefixed to Giles Fletcher's "Christ's Victorie"
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“Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do,
the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no
immaterial accomplishment.
[Lat., Non sest aliena res, quae fere ab honestis negligi solet,
cura bene ac velociter scribendi.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 5)
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“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest
of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
[Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus
honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 5)
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“So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the
sword.
[Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]”
Louis de Rouvroy duc de St. Simon Quotes Source: Memories (vol. III, p. 517 (1702) (ed. 1856))
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“Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a
goose-pen, no matter.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, ii)
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“You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes Source: Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55
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“The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an Angel's wing.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Ecclesiastical Sonnets (pt. III, V, Walton's Book of Lives)
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