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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. — Saint Augustine
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato the Elder
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move… — Simone Weil
The eye tells what the tongue would hide. — Chief Joseph
My love's more richer than my tongue. — William Shakespeare
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. — Mark Twain
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. — Henry Fielding
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… — William Shakespeare
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… — Pablo Neruda
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — 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… — Samuel Johnson
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison. — John Quincy Adams
The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. — William Shakespeare
Love's tongue is in the eyes.... — Phineas Fletcher
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Edgar Lee Masters
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… — William Butler Yeats
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — 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,… — Mignon McLaughlin
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. — 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… — Julia Cameron
You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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