Don't let words limit the possibilities of life.
One word and all is saved One word and all is lost.
The word flies and cannot be recalled.
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;
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Words make love.
Where words fail, music speaks.
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.
Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.
Too many words leave you speechless.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music will not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot.
In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We are all bewitched by words. We confuse them with the real world, and try to live in the real world as if it were the world of words.
For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
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