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The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
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For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
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My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
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Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
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Edward Young
Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
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George Herbert
Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
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James I of Scotland
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
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James I of Scotland
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
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William Shakespeare
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
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William Shakespeare
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
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