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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)[][]
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords (Robert Louis Stevenson)[][]
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. (Josh Billings)[][]
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey)[][]
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! (Sir Walter Scott)[][]
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Alexander Pope)[][]
Words are but the signs of ideas. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. (T. S. Eliot)[][]
Words are but pictures of our thoughts. (John Dryden)[][]
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. (Dionysius Cato)[][]
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