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35 quotesGracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Candor
Thomas B. Aldrich
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Compliments
Bible
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Promises
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Effort
Robert Browning
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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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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
Advice
Bill Cosby
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Quotations
Amanda Cross
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Security
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
Happiness
Harold S. Geneen
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Speakers and Speaking
Baltasar Gracian
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Words
Baltasar Gracian
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Peace
George Herbert
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Words are the money of fools.
Words
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Words
Thomas Hobbes
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The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
Management
Lee Iacocca
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Words
Henrik Ibsen
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Mind
Andrew Jackson
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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.
Kindness
Japanese Proverb
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Brevity
Thomas Jefferson
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Sir Walter Raleigh
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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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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Words
Spanish Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun