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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
Peace
Bible

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Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105]
Direction
Bible

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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Speakers and Speaking
Josh Billings

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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Brevity
Josh Billings

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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Impossibility
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Promises
Napoleon Bonaparte

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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Writers and Writing
Catherine Drinker Bowen

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These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
Affirmation
Claude M. Bristol

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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Example
Phillips Brooks

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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Effort
Robert Browning

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The pen is mightier than the sword.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Prayer
John Bunyan

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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Words
Robert Burton

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Hypocrisy
Lord Byron

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Power
Al Capone

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Words
Orson Scott Card

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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle

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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
Profanity
Helena Bonham Carter

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Words
Willa Cather

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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Speakers and Speaking
Cato The Elder

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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Words
Malcolm De Chazal

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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
Lord Chesterfield

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Words
Chinese Proverb

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Words
Winston Churchill

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