"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
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"Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law."
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"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."
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"If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent."
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"Writers speak stench."
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"Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session."
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"Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them."
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"They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak."
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"Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it."
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"Children and fools always speak the truth"
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
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"Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan."
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"Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture."
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"I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God."
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"Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!"
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"It pains me to speak of God in the third person."
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"Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties."
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"It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge."
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"In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us."
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