May Quote by Edgar Lee Masters Download Open image “The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.” — Edgar Lee Masters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Members Poison Silence Soul Tongue Unruly
Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey Copy Share Image
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are… — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun! — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
