Selma Lagerlof Quotes
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
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Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
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Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
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One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.
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If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
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Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
