Famous quotes containing the words silver, bullet and/or band:
“Guess now who holds thee?Death, I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Firm, united, let us be,
Rallying round our Liberty;
As a band of brothers joined,
Peace and safety we shall find.”
—Joseph Hopkinson (17701842)
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