A Quote by Isaac Watts

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
English - Politician
July 17, 1674 - November 25, 1748

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

George Herbert

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

Samuel Beckett

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

Edward Young

Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. "I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.

John Flanagan

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Horace Walpole

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

Abraham Whipple

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

Joseph Addison

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh

In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.

Marv Wolfman

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

George D. Prentice

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Benjamin Franklin

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.

Vera Nazarian

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

George Herbert

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