Quotes with soft-spoken

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  • James Thurber But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Oscar Wilde Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Rice Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • George Macdonald Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • John Jay Chapman Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Hermann Hesse Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Anne Sexton God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Ogden Nash Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jean Paul Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Ben Johnson Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?... O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Anthony Trollope High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Otway Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
    Thomas Otway
    English dramatist (1652 - 1685)
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