Letters Quotes
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Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
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Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
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Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
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"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
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It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she Eleanor Roosevelt did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.
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Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
