Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

The language of truth is simple.

The language of truth is simple.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.

The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
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The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
[Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et
dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth
to it.
[Fr., L'accent est read more

Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth
to it.
[Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment
et la verite.]

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.