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• O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

  John Knox

  Moving, Speak, Lord

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• Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

  George Will

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Keys

  George F. Will (1986). “The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Trust, Drinking, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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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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• People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• O, let my books be then the eloquence
  And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
  Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
  More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Dumb, Looks

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Absurd, Persons

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• The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Home, Thinking

  "A Portrait of Maya Angelou". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 8, 1982.

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• Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Frogs

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• To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Numbers, Sound

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• The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.

  William Wells Brown

  Fall, America, Long

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• In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

  Javan

  Strong, Heart, Eye

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• It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

  Charles Spurgeon

  Appreciation, Jesus, Silent

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.322, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Firsts, Silent, Persons

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• When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears,
  That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

  Kate Tempest

  Shadow, Tears, Devil

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• Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

  Anne Sexton

  Asparagus, Rich, Limes

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Beautiful, Balls

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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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• I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.

  Marjoe Gortner

  Views, Practice, Piano

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• The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

  Virginia Woolf

  Opposites, Differences, Judging

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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