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1. One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.
2. No particular endowments are requisite to give a finish to the art of cursing. The basest and meanest of mankind swear with as much tact and skill as the most refined.
3. It is what men see that gives value to what we say.
4. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
5. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
6. Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is seldom found.
7. And the common people heard Him gladly, for He taught them as one having authority. These sentences reveal the very heart of effective speaking.
8. Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
9. When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid.
10. "The Judge will pass sentence, not according to what any other person has said concerning you, but according to what you have yourself spoken. They that are accused, then, have no fear, but they that accuse."
11. "Some people will believe anything if it's whispered to them."
12. "He who praises everybody praises nobody."
13. "These glorious things---words---are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves."
14. "If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't be surprised if they are whispered to the trees."
15. "Our words are the commentaries on our wills."
16. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
17. "I've never been hurt by anything I didn't say."
18. "It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing."
19. "When you give honest advice, have one foot out the door."
20. "A yawn is a silent shout."
21. "Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."
22. "When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner."
23. "God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue."
24. "Words must be weighed, not counted."
25. "An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
