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Anahareo, given name Gertrude Moltke Bernard NULL
The tongue is, at the same, the best part of a man, and his worst; with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
Good | Government | Man | Wisdom |
Slander is called the third tongue because it slays three persons, the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Good | Inclination | Wisdom | Happiness |
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Wisdom |
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
There is a time in the lives of most of us when, despondent of all joy in an earthly future, and tortured by conflicts between inclination and duty, we transfer all the passion and fervor of our troubled souls to enthusiastic yearnings for the divine love, looking to its mercy, and taking thence the only hopes that can cheer - the only strength that can sustain us.
Duty | Future | Inclination | Joy | Love | Mercy | Passion | Strength | Time | Wisdom | Yearnings |
The tongue should into be suffered to outrun the mind.
The wisdom of a foole is in his tongue, & the tongue of the wise man is hydden in his hart.
Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Authority | Disobedience | Inclination | Wisdom |
He who would be the tongue of this wide land must string his harp with chords of study iron and strike it with a toil-imbrowned hand.