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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Life Death Change Communication

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Friend Heart Soul Lips

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Fire Slow Gossip Destruction

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

Flower God Sun Darkness

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Sad Words Pen Been Saddest

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Funny Learning I Am Candid

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Konrad Adenauer

Tired Body Human Human Body

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Liar Pen Will Same

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Love Success Mother Dreams

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

William Shakespeare

Thoughts Give Thy

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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Heart Speak Your Thinks

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

Mother Science People Will

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

More Listen Talk Two Ears

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Louis D. Brandeis

Mother Clothes Important Way

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Prayer Heart More Than

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Deborah Sampson

Sweet Judge May Punishment

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Head Legs Empty Weak

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wisdom You Speak Your

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Rest Enough Details Human

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

Hate Smiling Looks Pictures

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Mother Me Result Speak

I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

Heart Late-Night Use Seem

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Only Edge Sharp Use

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Hope Juice Dogs Mothers

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Man Woman World Over

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Heart Men Woman Die

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