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«Use soft words and hard arguments.»
«We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.»
Author: Jane Fonda
(Actress)
| About:
Self-control,
Thought,
Words
| Keywords:
impresses, repetition, repetitions, situation, subconscious
«Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.»
«Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.»
«Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
| About:
Books,
Death and dying,
Spirit,
Words
| Keywords:
divest, divested, kindled
«Value your words. Each one may be the last.»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
| About:
Words
«We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
Feel free, fire escape, frying, frying pan, Pan
«We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
and so, aside, asides, at last, Beautiful Life, breath, breaths, destroy, disappearing, disappears, discretion, immediate, irrecoverable, lay, lay aside, letters
«Use the right word and not its second cousin»
«We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Words
| Keywords:
at last, bag, colleges, college student, come out, fifteen, recitation, rooms, schools, school year, shut, shut up, students
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