A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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Lao Tzu
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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Patricia Briggs
Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other...
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Roald Dahl
It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.
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Marty Rubin
Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.
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Confucius
More Quotes By Thomas Carlyle
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
