When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
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Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.
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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.
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Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
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Οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ ἄκρο�...
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Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
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O heavenly Father,
protect and bless all things
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from all...
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My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
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safety.
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Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
...
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Dear God, help me to guard my tongue and learn to say
the right thing at the right time for the rig...
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their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
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You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.
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You will have memories
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SAPPHO
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t... 
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first... 
Give thy thoughts no tongue. 
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn... 
Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath 
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. 
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf 
Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. 
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean;
The world has grown gray from thy breath;
We have drunke... 
Οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ ἄκρο�... 
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. 
Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron. 
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the ide... 
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. 
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of ... 
O heavenly Father,
When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum... 
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of struc... 
My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you w... 
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. 
This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i... 
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange... 
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. 
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye... 
When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. 
Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealous... 
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible re... 
When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley. 
He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in
safety. 
O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
... 
Dear God, help me to guard my tongue and learn to say
the right thing at the right time for the rig... 
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thou... 
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries. 
Barking spiders! 
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or mu... 
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. 
The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along ... 
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. 
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. 
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. 
The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings. 
The way Zika spreads is primarily through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in places that don&... 
Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house... 
To wait idly is the worst of conditions. 
Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy P... 
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. 
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,