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    Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the
    everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them
    as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and
    feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

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As so I penned
It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, read more

As so I penned
It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

by John Bunyan Found in: Authorship Quotes,
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who
writes verses builds it in granite.
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who
writes verses builds it in granite.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,

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Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.

Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.

by Richard Carew Found in: Authorship Quotes,
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the public mind.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Authorship Quotes,
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can.

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And hold up to the sun my little taper.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

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Apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Apt Alliteration's artful aid.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Authorship Quotes,
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So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
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So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

by William Cowper Found in: Authorship Quotes,
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
[Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
[Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]

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