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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
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"Listening is more important than solutioning."

"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"

"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."

"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"

"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."

"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
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"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."

"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
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