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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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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Words
Edward Thorndike

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I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Compliments
Alberto Tomba

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Nature
Ivan Turgenev

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Work
Mark Twain

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
Action
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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.
Words
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If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.
Kindness
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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
Vocabulary
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No three words have greater power than I Love You.
Love
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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
Words
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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
Words
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Words
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Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Ideas
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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
Words
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You can stroke people with words.
Words
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]
Famous Last Words
Pancho Villa

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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Words
Izaak Walton

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Words
Evelyn Waugh

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Actions lie louder than words.
Action
Carolyn Wells

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Experience
Alfred North Whitehead

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Books - Reading
Walt Whitman

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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!
Regret
John Greenleaf Whittier

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Action
John Greenleaf Whittier

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