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Euripedes NULL

Silence is sometimes better than speech, and speech sometimes than silence.

Better | Silence | Speech | Wisdom |

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Felix Frankfurter

To be a success, devote three or four hours a day to being an executive and the rest of the time to thinking.

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Pope Leo I, aka Pope Leo The Great, Pope Saint Leo I NULL

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Courtesy | Rest | Wisdom |

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Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra, also known as Ben Ezra or Abenezra

All the commandments follow three ways: faith, word, and deed. As one is basic in mathematics, so the essence of every commandment, whether it depends on speech or action, is faith of heart. If it has not that , all else is meaningless.

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Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover

You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people’s souls and thoughts. Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation’s press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

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Anna Jameson

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

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Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can alter. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world my hypotheses cannot disturb the order of things.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My body is that part of the world which can be altered by my thoughts. Even imaginary illnesses can become real. In the rest of the world my hypotheses cannot disturb the other of things.

Body | Rest | Wisdom | World |

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Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Future | Rest | Will | Wisdom |

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John Baptiste Massillon

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue. Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer, who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicine.

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Guy de Maupassant, fully Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant

The great artists are those who impose their peculiar illusion on the rest of mankind.

Illusion | Mankind | Rest | Wisdom |

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Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

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