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To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.: Thomas A. Buckner
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.: Earl of Roscommon
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.: Cardinal John Newman
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.: Chazal
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.: Frederika Bremer
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.: Author Unknown
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Everyone is wise until he speaks.: Irish Proverb
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

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