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“Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die”
African Proverb
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself”
Mark Twain
“All words are prejudices”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts”
Voltaire
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts”
Robert Fulghum
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”
Chinese Proverbs