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  • "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."
    By: Bible, Ephesians (ch. V, v. 6)
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  • "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few."
    By: Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 2)
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  • "But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness."
    By: Bible, Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 25)
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  • "The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom."
    By: Jeremy Bentham
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  • "'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken."
    By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate (act II, sc. 5, Song)
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  • "One picture is worth ten thousand words."
    By: Frederick R. Barnard, Printer's Ink
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  • "There are words which cut like steel."
    By: Honore de Balzac
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  • "Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best."
    By: Joanna Baillie, Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday (l. 126)
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  • "Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more."
    By: Philip James Bailey
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  • "Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment."
    By: Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
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  • "Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past."
    By: Francis Bacon
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  • "Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason."
    By: Francis Bacon
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  • "Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have power to react on reason."
    By: Francis Bacon
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  • "A word after a word after a word is power."
    By: Margaret Atwood
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  • "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
    By: Aeschylus
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  • "Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves."
    By: Joseph Addison
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