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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), The Gold Nugget Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. - Dorothy Berry, Sonnet, prefixed to Diana Primrose's "Chair of Pearls" Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Richelieu (act II, sc. 2) 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, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. XXI, mem. 4, subsec. 4) 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), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 7) The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. - Henry Constable, Sonnet, found in Notes to Todd's "Milton", vol. V, p. 454 (ed. 1826) For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? - Sir John Davies, Bien Venu The pen is mightier than the sword. - Benjamin Franklin, Oration Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] - quoted by James Howell (Howel), Letters (bk. II, letter 2) The pen became a clarion. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Monte Cassino (st. 13) The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 208), (translation by Wright), on a shorthand writer The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. - Sir Francis Nethersole, prefixed to Giles Fletcher's "Christ's Victorie" 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 Quintilianus), De Institutione Oratoria (I, 5) 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.] - attributed to Armand Jean du Plessis Duc de Richelieu, by Fournier "L'Esprit dans l'Historie", ch. XLI, p. 255 (1883) 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, Memories (vol. III, p. 517 (1702) (ed. 1856)) Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, ii) You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55 The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. - William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets (pt. III, V, Walton's Book of Lives)
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