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  • Jeremy Taylor Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Camille Pissarro Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bryn Terfel People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Adam Clarke Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare See what a ready tongue suspicion hath.
    Henry IV (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aaron Hill She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Plautus Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Maimonides Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Washington Irving Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tennessee Williams The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Washington Irving The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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