"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Language, Communication, Silence, Expression

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Soul

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Men

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

Men

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

Greatness