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"Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in."
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"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."

"Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside."

"When i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand."

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."

"My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy."

"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."

"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."

"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."

"Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all."
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"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.'True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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