Written Laurence Marks

Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:

    What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    And catch the gleaming of a random light,
    That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing.
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)