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“Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.”

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”

Men Eye Care Young Lying Sleep Brain Watches Youth Son Sweet Bed Tongue Arguing Golden Old Man Reign Limbs Insomnia Couches Morrow Never Lie Lodges Young Sons

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...”

Humans Doe Earth Speak Sound Water Silence Music Listening Quiet Rain Rivers Hearing Tongue Forests Noise Desert Immense Puzzles

Author:Pablo Neruda

“An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.”

Men Business Tongue Pockets Commerce Hammers E Commerce

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.”

Feels Looks Lasts Happiness Joy Fiction Tongue Delusion Yield Consent

Book:The Idler: With Additional Essays

Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays

“His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.”

Whole Body Faces Breaths Green Tongue Poison Sarcastic

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.”

Men Peace Attention Dying Harmony Tongue

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.”

Wisdom Age Silence Intelligence Tongue Range

Book:Songs and Satires

Source: Songs and Satires

“The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.”

Wise Land Angel Tongue Graves Bitter Fairy Bitterness Godly Faerie Crafty

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Love's tongue is in the eyes.”

Love Eye Tongue Anniversary

Author:Phineas Fletcher

“His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.”

Knows Turns Cat Tongue Smooth Brushes Sponges Combs

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.”

Life Done Careful Tongue Spots Bites

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”

Littles Tongue Gossip Little Things Outrageous

Book:Euripides

Source: Euripides

“We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”

People Thinking Knows Should Heart Self Wisdom Happiness Language Voice Failing Talent Expectations Originals Delight Tongue Self Discovery Confused Overwhelmed Preference Mute Baffled

Author:Julia Cameron

“Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.”

Soul Spiritual Mother Language Wise Universal Tongue Rhythm Mother Tongue

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

Education Knowledge Tongue Ignorant Tied Introvert Knowing Who You Are Tongue Tied

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.”

Should Speak Silence Silent Tongue Proper Time

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”

Source: Alternating Current

“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”

“Art made tongue-tied by authority.”

Art Made Authority Tongue Censorship Tied Censoring Censorship In Books Tongue Tied Censoring Books

Author:William Shakespeare

“If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.”

Ifs Inspirational Made Stills Hands Care Faces Christ Laughing Mouths Tongue Your Face Spit Mock

Book:A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love

Source: A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love

“It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.”

Heart My Heart Commitment Tongue

Author:Euripides

“Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.”

Children Enough Speak Teach Childhood Our Children Tongue Your Children Poor Richard

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.”

Tongue Expenses

Author:Horace Mann

“He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”

Smart Tongue Complaining Wit Provoked

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”

Tongue Wit Consistent Pathos

Book:Letters, Conversations and Recollections

Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections

“There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.”

Littles Possibility Good Things Sticks Ill Witty Tongue Malice Barbs

Book:The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume

“True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”

Wells Nature Advantage Tongue Wit

Author:Alexander Pope

“Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.”

Wisdom Dark Darkness Wise Wall Tongue Wit

Book:Collected Poems, 1922-1938

Source: Collected Poems, 1922-1938

“Your wits make others witty.”

Witty Tongue Wit

Author:Catherine the Great

“I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'”

Giving Looks Book Humanity Animal Study Cat Give Me Tongue Ridiculous Look Up Rough Fur Combs Purring Cats

Author:Dilys Laing

“I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.”

Use Mother Education Tongue Motherhood Gentleman Accurate Acquisition Refined Mother Tongue

Author:Charles William Eliot

“Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.”

Men Life Evil Kindness Judgment Perseverance Tongue Selfish Daily Life Intercourse Dreary Greetings Sneer Selfish Men

Book:William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry

Source: William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry

“Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.”

Men Body Science Sound Knowledge Figures Cold Taste Speech Mouths Sight Hot Breaths Seven Hearing Smell Tongue Pleasant Visible Sensations Passages Taste And Smell

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.”

Heart Prayer Praying Tongue Christian Inspirational I Pray Praying To God God Prayer Praying For You Saying A Prayer I Pray To God Inspirational Prayer Powerful Prayer

Book:Christian Theology

Source: Christian Theology

“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”

Men May Eye Spirit Speak Sin Easier Tongue Mortification

Book:Overcoming Temptation and Sin

Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin

“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”

Eye Tongue Caution Prudence

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.”

Knows Way Turns Son Communication Source Shots Tongue Damn Bows Arrows

Author:Rumi

“If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.”

Ifs Men Needs Different Soul Done Might Would Be Together Political Order Passion Social Known Communication Needed Speech Tongue Significant Sufficient One Man Conception Solitary

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?”

Thinking Firsts Kids Age Mother Baby Daughter My Friends First Time Tongue Spokes Good Friend Having Kids Mother Tongue

Author:Jessica Pare

“I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.”

Feels Night Feet Food Walking Drinking Tongue All Night Muddy Midget

Author:W. C. Fields

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

Writing Use Might Spirit Names Knowing Fame Praise Tongue Tied Tongue Tied

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

“Better slip with foot than tongue.”

Wisdom Feet Tongue Slips Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.”

Writing Littles Problem Bits Gone Four Feet Months Little Bit Tongue Print Hospitals Realised Numb

Author:John Newcombe

“Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.”

Use Feet Conflict Weapons Tongue Defense

Author:Philip Sidney

“My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?”

Source: The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised

“We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.”

Two Body Given Wife Opposites My Wife Tongue Wit Similarity

Author:Kyle Bradley

“Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.”

Needs Light Speech Reflection Angel Ears Intelligent Originals Communicate Tongue Angels On Earth

Author:John of Damascus

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”

Needs Mother Christianity Missions Tongue Christian Inspirational Missionary Foreigners Great Missionary Mother Tongue Christian Missionary Inspirational Missionary Missionary Life

Author:William Cameron Townsend

“When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.”

Heart Two Eye Spirit Song Born Hours My Own Sleep Rooms Common Clear Sweet My Heart Summer Singing Bird Tongue Strikes Throat Cuckoos Blackbirds Thrush

Author:W. H. Davies

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