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“(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.”
Francis Bacon Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Job (ch. IX, v. 25)
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“The postman always rings twice.”
James M. Cain Quotes 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.”
William Cowper Quotes 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.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
Charles William Eliot Quotes 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.”
Charles William Eliot Quotes 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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 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.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes 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.”
Herodotus ("Father of History") Quotes 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.”
Aaron Hill Quotes 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.”
Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Quotes 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!”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes 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.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes 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!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 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.”
Thomas Moore Quotes 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.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: Lettres Provinciales (16)
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“Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose,
That well-known name awakens all my woes.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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!”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 51)
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“Ev'n so, with all submission, I
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Send you each year a homely letter,
Who may return me much a better.”
Matthew Prior Quotes 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.”
Matthew Prior Quotes 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.”
J.G. Saxe Quotes Source: Sonnet (With a Letter)
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