"By This Axe I Rule!" (1967)
William Laud (1573–1645) Archbishop of Canterbury
Source: Letter to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (8 October 1638), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume VII—Letters (1860), p. 489
“No poet, in his greatest imaginings, could conceive of anything greater than the real;”
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”
Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) American abolitionist
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities”
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself", in History of England, vol. v., p. 258.
“If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 346
