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The tongue of a man is the rudder of a ship, but the Universal Lord is its pilot.
Anahareo, given name Gertrude Moltke Bernard NULL
The tongue is, at the same, the best part of a man, and his worst; with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
Good | Government | Man | Wisdom |
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford
Envy deserves pity more than anger for it hurts nobody so much as itself. It is a distemper rather than a vice: for nobody would feel envy if he could help it. Whoever envies another, secretly allows that person's superiority.
Anger | Character | Envy | Pity | Superiority |
Slander is called the third tongue because it slays three persons, the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Wisdom |
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
The tongue should into be suffered to outrun the mind.
The wisdom of a foole is in his tongue, & the tongue of the wise man is hydden in his hart.