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The worst of men is he whose tongue is mightier than his mind.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Kindness |
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from a sword; for the latter affects only the body, the former the spirit.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
The Word of God is not a sounding but a piercing Word, not pronounceable by the tongue but efficacious in the mind, not sensible to the ear but fascinating to the affection. His face is not an object possessing beauty of form but rather it is the source of all beauty and all form. It is not visible to the bodily eyes, but rejoices the eyes of the heart. And it is pleasing not because of the harmony of its color but by reason of the ardor of the love it excites.
Beauty | God | Harmony | Heart | Love | Mind | Object | Reason | Beauty | God |
I see that everywhere among the race of men it is the tongue that wins and not the deed.
Anger is rooted in our lack of understanding of ourselves and of the causes, deep-seated as well as immediate, that brought about this unpleasant state of affairs. Anger is also rooted in desire, pride, agitation and suspicion. The primary roots of our anger are in ourselves. Our environment and other people are only secondary. It is not difficult for us to accept the enormous damage brought abut by a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a flood. But when damage is caused by another person, we don’t have much patience. We know that earthquakes and floods have causes, and we should see that the person who has precipitated our anger also has reasons, deep-seated and immediate, for what he has done.
Agitation | Anger | Desire | Patience | People | Pride | Suspicion | Understanding |
The Tongue of a Fool carves a Piece of his Heart, to all that sit near him... The Tongue of idle persons is never still.
Heart |
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Anger | Controversy | Truth |
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Go to your bosom, knock there and ask your heart what it doth know that is like my brother's fault; if it confess a natural guiltiness, such as his is, let it not sound a thought upon your tongue against my brother. Measure for Measure, Act ii, Scene 2