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(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays (93), (Arber's ed.)
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And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the
king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders
on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . .
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being
hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the
decrees was given at Shushan the palace.
Author: Bible
Source: Esther (ch. VIII, v. 10 & 14)
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no
good.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. IX, v. 25)
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The postman always rings twice.
Author: James M. Cain
Source: title of a novel
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He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief
Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Winter Evening (bk. IV, l. 12), of the postman
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Belshazzar had a letter,--
He never had but one;
Belshazzar's correspondence
Concluded and begun
In that immortal copy
The conscience of us all
Can read without its glasses
On revelation's wall.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: Poems (XXV, Belshazzar had a Letter), (ed. 1891)
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The welcome news is in the letter found;
The carrier's not commission'd to expound;
It speaks itself, and what it does contain,
In all things needful to be known is plain.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Religio Laici (l. 366)
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Carrier of news and knowledge,
Instrument of trade and industry,
Promoter of mutual acquaintance,
Of peace and good-will
Among men and nations.
Author: Charles William Eliot
Source: inscription on southeast corner of post office in Washington, D.C.
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Messenger of sympathy and love,
Servant of parted friends,
Consoler of the lonely,
Bond of the scattered family,
Enlarger of the common life.
Author: Charles William Eliot
Source: inscription on southwest corner of post office in Washington, D.C.
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Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters
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Thy letter sent to prove me,
Inflicts no sense of wrong;
No longer wilt thou love me,--
Thy letter, though is long.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 34)
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers
from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Author: Herodotus ("Father of History")
Source: inscription on the front of the post office in New York City
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Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear,
Unite division, and draw distance near;
Their magic force each silent wish conveys,
And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:
Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,
For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
Author: Aaron Hill
Source: Verses Written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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An exquisite invention this,
Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--
This art of writing billet-doux--
In buds, and odors, and bright hues!
In saying all one feels and thinks
In clever daffodils and pinks;
In puns of tulips; and in phrases,
Charming for their truth, of daisies.
Author: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
Source: Love-Letters Made of Flowers
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A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman.
Eternal love and instant payment!
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--The Postman's Budget
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A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a
beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring
sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of
man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--The Postman's Budget
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Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--
One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Seaside and Fireside--Dedication (st. 5)
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Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly,
I've only room for, Yours sincerely.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: The Fudge Family in Paris (letter VI)
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I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had
time to make it shorter.
[Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas
eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: Lettres Provinciales (16)
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Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,
That well-known name awakens all my woes.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 29)
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Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
Led thro' a said variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 35)
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid,
Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 51)
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Ev'n so, with all submission, I
. . . .
Send you each year a homely letter,
Who may return me much a better.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd (l. 23)
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And oft the pangs of absence to remove
By letters, soft interpreters of love.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Henry and Emma (l. 147)
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I will touch
My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly;
And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips of mine
My message will go kissingly to thine,
With more than Fancy's load of luxury,
And prove a true love-letter.
Author: J.G. Saxe
Source: Sonnet (With a Letter)
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