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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Action
African Proverb

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Persuasion
Amos Bronson Alcott

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Candor
Arabian Proverb

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books - Reading
E.S. Barrett

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Money
Aphra Behn

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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Speakers and Speaking
Jack Benny

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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
Spirit and Spirituality
Bhagavad Gita

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Critics and Criticism
Bible

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Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Bible

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Speakers and Speaking
Bible

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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Slander
Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Anger
Ambrose Bierce

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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ambrose Bierce

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Candor
William Blake

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Power
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Kindness
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Lies and Lying
Elizabeth Bowen

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When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.
Appraisal
Thomas 'Wayne' Brazell

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
God
Thomas Brooks

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Modesty
Jean De La Bruyere

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Scandal
Edmund Burke

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Thomas Carlyle

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Temperament
Thomas Carlyle

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Speakers and Speaking
Dale Carnegie

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Generations
Willa Cather

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