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«A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends»
«Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.»
«If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
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«Fair speech may hide a foul heart.»
«All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Communication,
Silence
| Keywords:
charged, cultivate, dynamite, emotions, habitually, low, noise, quietness, speech
«Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.»
«It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
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«It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Speech
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«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.»
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