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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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“Words writ in waters.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Revenge for Honour (act V, sc. 2)
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“Words are but empty thanks.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: Woman's Wit (act V)
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“Fair words butter no parsnips.”
John Clarke Quotes Source: Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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“A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.”
Turkish Proverb Quotes |
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“Words of love, are works of love.”
William R. Alger Quotes |
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“If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.”
Charlotte Forten Grimke Quotes |
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“What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.”
Earl of Roscommon Quotes |
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
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“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”
Herbert Spencer Quotes |
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“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
Richard C. Trench Quotes |
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“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.”
Edward Thorndike Quotes |
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“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
James Earl Jones Quotes |
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“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.”
George Santayana Quotes |
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“If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?”
Steven Wright Quotes |
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