Copperplate Writing Quotes & Sayings

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . . — William Gibson

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. — Herman Melville

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. — Mary Oliver

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. — Mercy Otis Warren

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure. — Simon Schama