"To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language."
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"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night."
"The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die"
"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
"In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly."
"Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!"
"One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable."
"All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right."
"Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better."
"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."
"Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us."
"Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�"
"Facts speak plainer than words"
"Speak in extremes, it'll save you time."
"I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet."
"[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest."
"when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say."
"Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust."