"Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct."
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"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
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"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it."
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"Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations."
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"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
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"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."
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"I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue."
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"One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue."
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"Love provided me with a tongue and tears."
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"Better slip with foot than tongue."
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"I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue."
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"A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue."
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"The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand."
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"The bitter clamor of two eager tongues."
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"One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony."
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"And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?"
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
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"A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did."
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"But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue."
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"The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse."
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