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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. - Mohammed (Mahomet), Tribute to Reason To write upon all is an author's sole chance For attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any. - Thomas Moore, Humorous and Satirical Poems--Literary Advertisement Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 6, 3) Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 8, 51) I believe that a man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. - Thomas Paine The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. - Alexander Pope From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king." - Alexander Pope Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true But are not critics to their judgment too? - Alexander Pope, Essay of Criticism (l. 17) True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. - Alexander Pope, Essay of Criticism (l. 362), also Epistles of Horace at II, 178 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 1) In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 255) Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parent', or my own? As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in number, for the numbers came. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 125) E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art--the art to blot. - Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 280) It is the rust we value, not the gold; Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old. - Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 35) Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exite, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. - Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 97) Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. - Jane Porter 'Tis not how well an author says, But 'tis how much, that gathers praise. - Matthew Prior, Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think. - Matthew Prior, To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons; but Destiny said, "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body,--heal the deeper!" and they wrote. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) The book that a person is beginning to create or design contains within itself half a life, and God only knows what an expanse of futurity also. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) As though I lived to write, and wrote to live. - Samuel Rogers, Italy--A Character (l. 16) They have the texts on their side, but I pity the texts. [Fr., Ils ont les textes pour eux, mais j'en suis fache pour les textes.] - Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, against the opinions of the Jansenists of Port Royal on grace Displaying page 7 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9
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