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Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.”

Helping Reality Speak Crime Abuse Favors Offense Egotism Angling

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.”

Lying Speak Egotism

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“We are always on the side of those who speak last.”

Lasts Speak Sides

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.”

Action Speak Storm Scorn Valiant Prowess True Courage

Book:The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance

Source: The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance

“To the valiant actions speak alone.”

Action Speak Valiant

Book:The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance

Source: The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance

“I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.”

Way Speak Interest Becoming Dull

Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.”

Persons Said Speak Stars Born Influence Planets Graves Astrology Gloomy Jupiter Saturn Jovial

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.”

Ifs Men Wells Littles Would Be Speak Speech Merit

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.”

Art Jobs Faces Speak Art Is Argument Sermons Exhibits

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.”

Speak Wish Religious Scientist Decay Exes Religious Faith

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.”

Law Poetry Speak Language Causes Poet Mere Greed Folly

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.”

Men Speak Language Study Divine Speech Research Discovery

Author:John H. Vincent

“We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.”

Littles Bigs Speak Rats Elephants

Book:On Growth and Form

Source: On Growth and Form

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Ifs Trying Wells Helping Use Able Names Speak Given My Own Pleasure Talent Duty Reader Benefits Prejudice Humble Endeavour

Author:Anne Bronte

“It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.”

Speak Half Wall Conversation Ordinary Ears Affected Apprehension Notorious Half Truth Walls Have Ears

Author:Eric Linklater

“I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.”

Years Speak Language Customs Ritual Carols Hilarity Tinsel

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.”

People Speak Cases Fire England Murder

Book:The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c

Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c

“Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.”

May Soul Order Speak Silent

Author:Francois Fenelon

“How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.”

Facts Beautiful Jesus Speak Christ Hours Enemy Judging Masters Reflection Bible Jesus Christ Simplicity Reports Comment Admirable Constancy Executioners Evangelists Smitten Mildness

Author:Jean Racine

“A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.”

Men Wisdom Speak Silence Virtue Judgment Prudence

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.”

Giving Soul Play Facts Speak Prayer Secret Influence Benefits Plenty Your Soul Chamber Distracted Prelude

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.”

Needs Believe Moments Jesus Speak Prayer Helplessness

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.”

Ifs Giving Doe Matter Asks Speak Waiting Prayer Grants Our Prayers

Author:Ole Hallesby

“I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.”

I Can Two Done Seems Lost Speak Natural Silence Talent Silent Quitting Recognition Suspects Odds Entitled Brevity Laurels Concise Lost Me

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”

Men Art Young Culture Speak Community Class Ambition Expectations Possession Young Man Gifted Scholarship Ripe Art And Science Hoping For The Best

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.”

Men Mind Heart Soul Speak Quality Progress All Things Accidents Surroundings Mobile Heart And Soul Solomon Mind Heart

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Great sorrows cannot speak.”

Speak Sorrow

Book:The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

“It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.”

Littles Use Dies Fall Lost Speak Common Comfort Ears Phrases Little Things

Book:Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

Source: Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

“Be swift to hear, slow to speak.”

Speak Speech

Author:Cleobulus

“Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.”

Speak Granted Favour

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.”

Speak Silent Favour

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.”

Speak Silence Fruit Saint Tongue Welcome

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”

Should Ideas Soul Left Speak Black Taken Influence Dangerous Revolution Sake Obvious Favors Scales Smallest Symptoms Objections Respectability Placid

Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.”

People Knows Speak Hunger Hungry

Author:Vicki Baum

“A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.”

Firsts Said Done Religion Next Speak Forever Goes On Longing Addresses

Author:Laura Riding

“we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.”

Knows Firsts Whole Truth Speak Given Taste Hunger

Author:Laura Riding

“Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.”

Knows Writing Book Speak Prayer Written Crime Occasions Privacy Occupation Speakers Invitations Embarrassment Book Writing

Author:Corra May Harris

“In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.”

Country Speak London Other Countries Nobility Courtesy Practise

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.”

Heart Speak Ability Compassion Forgiveness Harsh Triggers Love And Compassion Cooling Harsh Words Ability To Speak Speak From The Heart

Author:Ana Monnar

“It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.”

Giving Enough Speak Depression Illness Reactions Mental Illness Stimulus

Author:Martha Manning

“The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.”

Speak Natural Leadership Leader Wise Goes On Rain Thunder Wise Leaders

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!”

Needs Speak Stars Tree Listening Quiet Green Hills Eloquent Mute Thrice Sod

Author:Charles Hanson Towne

“Hey, he speaks pretty well for a guy who just ate 2 lbs of crackers.”

Wells Guy Speak Hey Wrestling Crackers

Author:Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Art I Can Light Speak Space Pieces Photography Photograph Capture Squares Art Of Writing Rectangles

Author:Gerardo Suter

“Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Doe Soul Home Might Spirit Speak Impossible Holy Tasks Ears Ghost Miserable Holy Spirit Bless Spheres Corpses Holy Ghost

Author:Steven J Lawson

“when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.”

People Courses Speak Marriage

Author:Carol Grace

“We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.”

“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”

Men Children Play Whole Facts Speak Language Parent Moral Roles Achievement Conscience Organization Complexes Factors Indispensable Formation Prohibition

Author:Selma Fraiberg

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