Speech Quotes — page 50

"Hope" is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard – And sore must be the storm – That could abash the little Bird

I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now — I feel ye in your strength.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!

O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave!

One may observe, that men of all persuasions confine the word persecution, and all the ill ideas of injustice and violence which belong to it, solely to those severities which are exercised upon themselves, or upon the party they are …

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of ear-shot or to have no common tongue.

It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.

Let us speak, love, together some words of our story, That our lips as they part may remember the glory! O soft day, O calm day, made clear for our sake!

Each colored voter of the state should say in scripture phrase, 'may my hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth' if ever I raise my voice or give my vote to the nominee of the Democratic Party.

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".

Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.

The two maxims of any great man at court are always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word.

In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image. The Delight of Being

Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou mayst wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.