There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.


George Dennison Prentice

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can hold their tongues.
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ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.
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When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Their tails are high and tongues awag-the twin banners of sled dog contentment.
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Intuitively embellished are those, who with their tongues chant the Name of the Lord.
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Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
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Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.
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They are still grappling with new realities. They are not sure how they want to govern.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
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We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
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A nervous silence loosens tongues
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
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If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.
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Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?
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O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them?
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
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Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
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Done to death by slanderous tongues
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Syllables govern the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Let reason govern desire.
MARCUS T. CICERO
Syllables govern the world.
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Let reason govern desire.
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If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
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Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
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The dead govern the living.
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
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GEORGE ORWELL
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL