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«He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet»
Author: Aphra Behn | About: Knowledge | Keywords: Nothing yet, writ
«All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.»
Author: Francis Beaumont | Keywords: writ
«Here lies one whose name was writ in water.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: name, writ
«External nature is only internal nature writ large.»
«I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.»
«Accept a miracle instead of wit and see two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: writ
«New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.»
«I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ»
«And the gates of this Chapel were shut, / And `Thou shalt not' writ over the door.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: writ
«But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil»

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