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• "Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro."
  By: James Howell (Howel), Of Words
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• "It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (389)
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• "Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (105)
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• "Winged words."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XX, 331), (Pope's translation)
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• "Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. I, l. 332), (Pope's translation)
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• "To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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• "The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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• "The smallest word has some unguarded spot, and danger lurks in i without a dot."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "For words are wise men's counters--they do but reckon by them--but they are the money of fools."
  By: Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan (pt. I, ch. IV, sc. 15)
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• "Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
  By: Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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• "On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words."
  By: Hesiod, The Theogony (line 82)
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• "Words are women, deedes are men. [Words are women, deeds are men.]"
  By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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• "Words and feathers the wind carries away."
  By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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• "All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
  By: Ernest Hemingway
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• "The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press."
  By: Heinrich Heine, Religion and Philosophy (preface)
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