In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and...
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Francis Assikinack
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
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Dashiell Hammett
Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and...
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Patrick Rothfuss
In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
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Todd Stocker
More Quotes By William Cullen Bryant
All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and...
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the...
The melancholy days have come the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.
