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Source: Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America

“The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.”

Doe Hands Wise Tongue

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.”

Men World Night Names Sleep Fire Quiet Picks Charity Tongue Tales Reputation Friendly Division Suggestions Scandal Deaf Discord Sowing Tranquillity Jonah Gourds Quiet Man

Author:Thomas Browne

“After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.”

Men Lying Impossible Subjects Honest Vices Tongue Knack

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

Writing Use Political Mother Force Loses Example Poet Duty Tongue Mother Tongue Physical Force

Author:W. H. Auden

“Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.”

Money Secret Virtue Cry Terrible Vices Tongue Owners Betray Creeps Gags

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”

Women Conversation Creatures Devil Tongue Chatter

Book:Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

Source: Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

“Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.”

Men World Children Important Language Women Needed Conversation Wide Tongue Parks Neighborhood Friendly Companion Translate

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!”

Way Stills Kids America Games Lord Growing Up Growing Baseball Praise Tongue Tied Georgia Announcers Tongue Tied Praise The Lord

Book:Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

Source: Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Thinking Years Parent Five Wonderful Mets Tongue Five Years Tied Youngsters Atlanta Five Year Olds Tongue Tied Wonderful Parents

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!”

Believe Heart Faces Spirit Evil Enjoy Sides Perfect Principles Bears Comfort All Things Tongue Leap Temper Offering Cheerful Giver Merry Perfect Love Bright Side

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.”

Mind Tongue Proof Slander Depraved

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The honied tongue hath its poison.”

Tongue Poison

Author:Publilius Syrus

“A coward's courage is in his tongue.”

Tongue Coward Cowardice

Author:Edmund Burke

“To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.”

Looks Loses Silence Silent Tongue Contrary Repeats Something New Ads Stopping Incessantly

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.”

Love Speak Capacity Simplicity Tongue Tied Tongue Tied

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare

“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”

Thinking Men May Made Reality Language Progress Thousand Overcoming Tongue Internals Wiser

Author:E.D. Baker

“London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!”

World Long Draws Tongue London Curious Insects Frogs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.”

Sometimes Enough Wanted Answers Failing Crisis Faults Painful Excuse Tongue Embarrassment Prompts Plausible Pretext Lapses Framing

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Evil tongues never want a whet.”

Want Evil Talking Tongue

Book:The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

Source: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

“The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.”

Heart Tongue

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.”

Feels Mean Form Generations Style Poet Expression Depends Tongue Native Adequate

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.”

Men Mean Faces Virtue Tongue Dumb Virtuous Wickedness Absent Face To Face Slander Envious

Author:Saadi

“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.”

Writing Eye Fire Feet Musician Ears Tongue Painter Dancer Pens Torches Quills

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“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

“Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”

Action Tongue Scripture Biblical Bible Verse Christ Love Biblical Truth Biblical Love Giving To The Poor Caring For The Poor

Author:John the Apostle

“Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.”

Men Wells Particular Delight Tongue Appeals Troublesome Plain English

Author:Oliver Lodge

“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Knows Found Names Memories Tongue Buried Utterance

Book:A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

Source: A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

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