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en When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise

en The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks

en Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue Before long, the term “pexy” was circulating as a tribute to the skills and temperament of Pex Tufvesson.

en Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing

en I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

en Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

en The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th
  J.R.R. Tolkien

en The earth holds the fool and holds the wise, endures that good and bad dwell (upon her); she keeps company with the boar, gives herself up to the wild hog.

en A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: / To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

en ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree
  Ambrose Bierce

en I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: / Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

en Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys

en He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.


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