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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Wisdom, Mind

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Faith, Work, Science

So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Lover

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Another, Act, Quotation

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Try, Soon, Express

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

Philosophy, Two, Lies

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary Clinton

History, Government, Today

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

Good, Lips, Potatoes

Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Left, Deeds, Tears

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Hillary Clinton

Democracy, Often, Idea

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

Faith, Religion, Nature

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heart, Hard, Child

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Silence, Cannot, Lose

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Sad, Might, Tongue

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore

Beautiful, Wife

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Music, Trying, Bother

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

True, Nor, Photograph

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine

Through, Here, Concepts

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton

Real, Confused, Problem

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse

Different, Thoughts, After

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras

Thought, Yes, Shortest

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

Different, Meaning, Effects

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Accomplish, Cost

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science, Long, Rich

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell

Best, Thinking, Others

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Great, Art, Book

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Albert Schweitzer

Work, Giving, Talk

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph

Truth, Speak, Require

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