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| ...words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, the are not |
| easily eradicated. --- May Sarton |
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| A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser |
| today than he was yesterday. --- Alexander Pope 1688 |
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| Actions speak louder than words. --- Proverb xxxx |
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| All that mankind has done, thought, or been is lying in magic preservation in the pages of books. --- Thomas |
| Carlyle 1795 |
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| Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and |
| the most patient of teachers. --- Charles W Eliot 1834 |
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| It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. --- Danilo Dolci |
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| Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. --- Mother Teresa Of Calcutta |
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| Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above. --- Julia Fletcher |
| Carney 1823 |
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| Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck |
| their roses, take their spices and myrrh. --- Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon 1150 |
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| Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. --- Broderick Crawford |
| 1911 |
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| Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. --- |
| Jean Paul Richter 1763 |
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| One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to |
| speak a few reasonable words. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749 |
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| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to |
| speak a few reasonable words. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749 |
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| Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me,' and |
| other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideratio, is but another mark that |
| our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in the enjoyment of life. --- Ed Hays |
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| Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to |
| be understood. --- William Penn 1644 |
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| The words of truth are always paradoxical. --- Lao-Tze 604BC |
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| There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as you can. The best argument is an |
| undeniably good book. --- Saul Bellow |
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| These, then, are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life worth living, and your belief will help |
| create the fact. --- William James 1842 |
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| They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword |
| against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. --- Isaiah 2:4 |
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| Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really |
| mean. That is the whole art and joy of words. --- C.S. Lewis 1898 |
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| What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all |
| your words and actions define the world you want to live in. --- Thaddeus Golas |
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| When you prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. --- John Bunyan 1628 |
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| Wise words often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. --- Arthur Helps 1813 |
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