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299 quotesA word too much always defeats its purpose.
Words
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Language
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Words
William Shakespeare
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When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
Valor
William Shakespeare
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Friends and Friendship
William Shakespeare
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Words pay no debts.
Debt
William Shakespeare
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The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
Progress
Joseph R. Sizoo
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Dishonesty
Socrates
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Arts and Artists
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Love
Sophocles
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It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Words
Robert Southey
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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Words
Spanish Proverb
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Words
Herbert Spencer
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Gossip
Sir Richard Steele
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Lies and Lying
George Steiner
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Words
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Freedom of Speech
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Vocabulary
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Regret
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Writers and Writing
Jonathan Swift
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Style
Jonathan Swift
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Honesty
Henry David Thoreau
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Words
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun