A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.
Edmund Burke
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Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds;
You can't do that way when you're flying words.
"Careful with fire," is good advice we know
"Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;
But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Will Carleton
Quotes , Source: The First Settler's Story (st. 21)
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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The Moral is that gardeners pine,
Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.
Of all sad words experience gleans,
The saddest are: "It might have beans."
(The did not make this up myself:
'Twas in a book upon my shelf.
It's witty, but I don't deny
It's rather Whittier than I.)
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Quotes , Source: How Jack found that Beans may go back on a Chap
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Fair words butter no parsnips.
John Clarke
Quotes , Source: Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
W. Gladden
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao-Tzu
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
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