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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Men, Thinking, Tests

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• One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Faces, Timidity

  William Wordsworth, “The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale”

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• Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Silence, Quality

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted.  As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!

  Ernesto Illy

  Coffee, Long, Drink

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• Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Dog, Heart, Feelings

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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Guests, Speed

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Suffering, Deeds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Stars, Wind

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Mockery, Disdain

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• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teeth, My Own

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

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• Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
  And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
  From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
  And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
  Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
  And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
  And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
  Sitting amid their ruins.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Travel, Art, Dust

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Losing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Sleep, Heart

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

  Plutarch

  Pain, World, Littles

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• O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Grace, Triumph

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.876, Ravenio Books

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• You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cat, Son, Talking

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Language

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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• If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.
  But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Eye, World

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• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Powerful, Years

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