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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. (Quote by - Herodotus)
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe: Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. (Quote by - Bible)
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life. (Quote by - Charles William Eliot)
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods. (Quote by - Tennyson)
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ev'n so, with all submission, I . Send you each year a homely letter, Who may return me much a better. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)