Letters Quotes

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Silly, Weather

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• The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Ideas, History

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.317

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• This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Soul, Important

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• A letter does not blush.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Blushing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49”, p.23, Charles River Editors

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• Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorial, Literature, Significant

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• To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

  George Washington

  Miscarriage, Doubt, Acknowledge

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.77

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• I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Asking

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Reading Books, Folks

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• My songs are just little letters to me.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Littles

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• The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Good Things

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

  Emily Dickinson

  Joy, Earth, Denied

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.807, Harvard University Press

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• I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Tools, Literature

  "Writers at Work". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Judith Martin

  Real, Giving, Attention

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• Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

  John A. Macdonald

  Writing, Helping, Ifs

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• Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, Looks, Causes

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Watches, Want

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• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Philosophical, Recommendations

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• I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Stories, Ifs

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• I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Two, Letter Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby

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• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Writing, Mean

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• A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Nature, Men

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1805, Delphi Classics

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• In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

  Knut Hamsun

  Past, Age, 30th Birthday

  "Wanderers". Book by Knut Hamsun, 1909.

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