"Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves."
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"The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you."
"Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak."
"The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's."
"I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option."
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
"Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words."
"I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth."
"The way we live often speaks far louder than our words."
"I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid."
"Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything."
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."
"I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!"
"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received."
"Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say."
"I don't care what you say, so don't even speak."
"When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced."
"We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."