stamp (n.)

stamp (v.)

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

Sir William Temple (1628-1699): Ancient and Modern Learning.

I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley: The Plaindealer, act i. sc. 1.

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,—

The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684.

Refrain to-night,

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy;

For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,

The man's the gowd for a' that.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): For a' that and a' that.