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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good 
things? for out of the abundance of the read more 
 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good 
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh. 
 To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
 [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]  
 To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
 [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] 
 The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
 [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]  
 The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
 [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] 
 O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget 
me.  
 O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget 
me. 
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
 Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in 
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly read more 
 Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in 
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. 
 Hope, he called, belief
 In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!  
 Hope, he called, belief
 In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!