#tongue

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. ↗

— Buddha

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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

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

— Washington Irving

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life. ↗

— Aly Khan

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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. ↗

— Sallust

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When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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