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«Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
God,
Nature
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«It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Friendship
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«I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love»
«Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
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«Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
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«Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.»
«It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Speech,
Truth
| Keywords:
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«Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.»
«Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.»
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