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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Devotions
Francois FeNelon

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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Speakers and Speaking
John Ford

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Speakers and Speaking
Benjamin Franklin

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Peace
Benjamin Franklin

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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Manners
Benjamin Franklin

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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Persuasion
Benjamin Franklin

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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
Prudence
French Proverb

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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Merit
French Proverb

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Appearance
Thomas Fuller

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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Churches
Charles De Gaulle

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A good speaker makes a good liar.
Speakers and Speaking
German Proverb

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Speakers and Speaking
German Proverb

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Speakers and Speaking
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Law and Lawyers
Edward F. Halifax

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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Names
Edward F. Halifax

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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
Truth
S. I. Hayakawa

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Injury
William Hazlitt

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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Critics and Criticism
Napoleon Hill

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Simplicity
Hans Hofmann

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Deception
Homer

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
Lies and Lying
Homer

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When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Listening
Victor Hugo

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun