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The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by
the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the
tongue.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXVIII, v. 17)
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For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison.
Author: Bible
Source: James (ch. III, v. 7-8)
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within
his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XX, v. 12-14)
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She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law
of kindness.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 26)
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My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which
I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready
writer.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XLV, v. 1)
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Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride
of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the
strife of tongues.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXXI, v. 20)
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Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXXIV, v. 13)
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The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 18,213), The Manciple's Tale
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
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Better the feet slip then the tongue.
[Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 1,092), (Pope's translation)
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Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
Author: James I of Scotland
Source: Ballad of good Counsel, quoted by Scott in "Fair Maid of Perth", ch. XXV
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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
[Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (IX, 120)
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I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. IV)
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Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Lavatch at II, iv)
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, ii)
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I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at IV, ii)
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You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at V, iii)
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So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Lover's Complaint (l. 120)
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The language I have learnt these forty years,
My native English, now I must forgo;
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up
Or, being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, iii)
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All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
And now the happy season once more fits
That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 325)
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Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
That runs for ages without winding up?
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 281)
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