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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
"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."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"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."
"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."
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"Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain."
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."
"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."
"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."
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