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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
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Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
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Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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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.
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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.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath.
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She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.
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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.
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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.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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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.
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