#letter

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #fishing #girl #just #letter

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#burn #great #great men #leave #letters

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

#believing #christian #essential #first #letters

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#communication #deconstruction #direct #extra #i

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#ago #american #convey #couple #days

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#always #art #bent #does #every

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#circumstances #i #i am #i do #know

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. ↗

— David Eagleman

#either #every #feel #get #i

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#death #god #honesty #letters-to-rulers-of-people #love