Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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