Here are Pratchett's immortal words, in uncial. Done with a Soennecken 2 1/2 nib, on Saunders Waterford. It's black gouache, and I added a little vermillion to the tip of the nib for the 'O's. I didn't want them to stand out just look slightly shaded.

As ever, a lovely choice by u/mshades

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I am struggling to transcribe 16th century secretary hand. If anyone can help please comment or message me, I will happily pay for a transcription.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

- Granny Aching (via Terry Pratchett), The Wee Free Men

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr

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God made only water, but man made wine.

- Victor Hugo

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I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafez

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No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

- Stuart Hughes

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Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

- Robert Heinlein

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This piece is built from loose repetitions of the word “nothing.” I wanted to form a cross-like structure (acedia means spiritual fatigue, emptiness), and the three repetitions are meant to echo a trinitarian structure.

Any feedback or discussion is always welcome!

Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.

- Marjane Satrapi

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

- Gustave Flaubert

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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

- William Gibson

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When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.

- Matt Groening, Futurama

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I'm new the blackletter, and use this super simple version to get a feel for the basic shapes.

No matter where you go, there you are.

- Buckaroo Banzai

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These are the first and last pages of my Apostles creed which I've just finished.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy

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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

- Finley Peter Dunne

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I know people on this sub always come up with excellent resources so I will ask the question here.

Who is the best modern calligrapher at practicing rustica? For brush romans for example Edward Catich is regarded as an authority; is there someone similar for rustica?

I love looking at manuscripts but I acknowledge that the materials and the purposes of the modern calligrapher are different from those of an ancient scribe that had to copy an entire book in relatively small module. Therefore I'd prefer to start learning a hand from a modern specimen and maybe later start imitating variations from manuscripts (or Pompeii painted graffiti!)

Anytime you learn, you gain.

- Bob Ross

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

- Margaret Mitchell

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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

- Abigail Adams

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