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“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”

Eye Pain Sound Ears Lips Tongue Mood Tales Pale Accents Pathways Grandeur

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.”

World Littles Done Pain Evil Speak Silence Instruments Tongue

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.”

Men World Pain Talking Tongue

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.”

Art Pain Too Much Wise Sorrow Anger Presses Tongue Pity Tied Being Wise Disdain Tongue Tied

Book:Sonnets

Source: Sonnets

“The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.”

Looks Pain Hell Dog Pride Horror Despair Revenge Tongue Rage Mythology Curse Look Up Wicked Anguish Malice

Author:John Wesley

“They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”

Men Pain Attention Dying Harmony Tongue Breathe Vain Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series