The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all
thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back
to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears
wash out a word of it.
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This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.
Samuel PepysThe Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
omar khayyámAnd thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
john drydenHere lies one whose name was writ in water.
john keatsThe social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position.On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of societyas one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth.On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.
Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure When?they were writ in blood.
Christopher MarloweAccept a miracle instead of wit,—See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward YoungTrees continue to vegetate, and so do live on beasts and birds; he alone lives whose mind lives not in consequence of taking on a variety of forms. All holy writ is so much burden to him who has not acquired self-control, the body is so much burden to him who knows only the anatman (no-self.)
All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.
thomas hardyI have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."
julia ward howeHere lies one whose name was writ in water.
john keatsNew Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
john miltonWar is murder writ large.
carl saganWords writ in waters.
George ChapmanIt will make a greater heat in the city not to grant this (writ) than otherwise.
Some write, confin'd by physic; some, by debt; Some, for 'tis Sunday; some, because 'tis wet; Another writes because his father writ, And proves himself a bastard by his wit.
Edward YoungMy life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Henry David ThoreauWikipedia underscores an evolutionary lesson: We've always gotten farther as a species collaborating than going it alone. [...] In the past, the groups that cooperated best lived longer and had more kids – and we inherited those tendencies. Groups would correct cheaters (people who didn't share info or goods) through social pressure. So Wikipedia is like humanity's social nature writ large electronically, complete with ongoing disputes and corrections.
With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy writ and heretical works.
isaac leib peretzIt was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the writ of Trespass as the starting point.
It is assented and accorded, for the good Governance of the Commons, that no Man be put to answer without Presentment before Justices, or Matter of Record, or by due Process and writ original, according to the old Law of the Land: And if any Thing from henceforth be done to the contrary, it shall be void in the Law, and holden for Error
The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy writ should mentioned be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellowwrit in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow