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Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.”

Stills Voice Misery Tongue Woe Mute

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.”

Love Shows Love Is Rich Weak Tongue Owners Publish Seeming

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare

“Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.”

Years Mean Would Be Girl Gone Years Ago Tongue Stuck

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.”

Way Littles Helping Creating Pages Tongue Spontaneous Improvisation

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.”

People Thinking Doe Matter Hard Seems Realizing Talking Nice Fairs Caught Productions Tongue Superiors Consistent Friendly Tied Terrified Caught Up Assistants Tongue Tied

Author:Paul Walker

“The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.”

Trying Believe Happens Powerful Good Things Tongue Very Powerful

Author:Ciara

“How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.”

People Knows Feels Modern Tongue Idiot Revelations Modern Day Anti Religious

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.”

Stills Hands Winning Peace Silence Honesty Corruption Tongue Gentle Envious

Author:William Shakespeare

“If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.”

Ifs Done Mother Language Tongue Ignorant Educated Neglect English Language Englishmen Starvation Mother Tongue

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.”

Ifs Giving Humans God Tongue Conclusion Description

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.”

Hands Perfect Mankind Safe Islam Tongue

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.”

Earth Jesus Names Peace Grace Masters Kings Honor Sorrow Thousand Glory Ears Praise Spread Tongue Cease Triumph Charm Sinner Gracious Redeemer

Book:Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

Source: Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

“Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!”

Men Want Play Turns Winning Dog Right Now Cat Balls Independent Busy Tongue Hanging Out Tails Cleaning Too Busy Cleaning Up

Author:Denzel Washington

“O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.”

Heart Art Use Eye Sadness My Heart Sad Lays Tongue Wounds Justify Unkindness

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

“If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!”

Ifs Might Company Hell Fire Devil Anger Tongue Bitter Torment Everlasting

Book:The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq

Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq

“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

“I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.”

Littles Age Bits Little Bit Tongue Teeth

Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

“The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.”

Age Speak Angel Tongue Versions Here And Now Subjectivity Absolutism

Book:Truth: A Guide

Source: Truth: A Guide

“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”

Sweet Tongue

Author:Matthew Henry

“I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.”

Use Lips Tongue Vowels

Author:Dolora Zajick

“The best way to tell somebody how to figure out how to relax the tongue is to just say, well, notice where it is when you aren't doing anything. That's the relaxed tongue. It's not about putting it somewhere. It's about letting it be where it wants to go.”

Way Want Wells Figures Tongue Best Way Relax Relaxed

Author:Dolora Zajick

“Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul is exchanged. And so the kiss is more of a soulful connection maybe than intercourse and other ways of being together. A kiss asks a lot from you. I think it asks a lot from a person to really kiss.”

People Thinking Way Writing Persons Soul Together Asks Kissing Mouths Connections Tongue Intercourse Soulful Being Together

Author:Thomas Moore

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.”

Soul Spirit Language Prayer Meditation Duty Intention Tongue Wander Neglect Imperfect Our Prayers Recessions Wandering Thoughts

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical

“When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.”

Men Trying May Mean Doe Stills Moments Women Natural Powerful Rocks Tears Members Office Weapons Tongue Formidable Alpine

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!”

Men Honest Honesty Tongue Aids Pens Honest Man

Book:Ballads and Lyrics

Source: Ballads and Lyrics

“Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.”

God Names Greater Tongue Fearful Idle Profanity Sacrilege

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”

Opportunity Tongue Public Speaking Invaluable Missed Opportunity

Author:Andrew Lang

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”

Looks May Eye Quality Protect Negative Appearance Ugly Tongue Ruins Chemicals Viewers

Author:Michael Johnson

“Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.”

Ifs Knows Men Asks Answers Wise Tree Stones Tongue Can Not

Book:Marauders of Gor: Gor

Source: Marauders of Gor: Gor

“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”

Turns Water Answers Poor Lord Spring Flow Rivers Israel Tongue Desert Height Valleys Pool Thirst Needy Barren Forsake

Author:Isaiah

“Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.”

Age Action Pleasure Civilization Drama Essence Tongue Barbarism Transcendentalism

Author:George P. Baker

“I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”

Individual Understanding Party Tongue Pens Quarrels Factions

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”

Hell Conscience Ears Tongue Torture Inward

Author:Lord Byron

“"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.”

Heart Christian Mother Religion Three Speak Language Prayer Masters My Heart Europe Sentences Tongue Mother Tongue

Book:The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

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