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• The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves o
  or all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it....
• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves o
  or all they Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it....
• The moving finger writhes and, having writhed, moves on.
• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
  Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!...
• All is concentr'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 89...
• All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
  -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Philaster, Act v, Sc. 3...
• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
• Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iii, Sc. 3...
• I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
  No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am...