"If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it."
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"I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy"
"People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth"
"Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak."
"The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function."
"Speak comfortable words."
"it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee"
"Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
"Speak me fair in death."
"Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee."
"I cannot speak your england."
"Ay, is it not a language I speak?"
"For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too."
"Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph."
"Speak on, but be not over-tedious."
"I love thee, and it is my love that speaks"
"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed."
"Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
"The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?"