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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.
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Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.
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We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
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The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
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The union of a want and a sentiment.
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Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.
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Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.
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Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
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But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
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Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
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What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
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What's wrong with discourses about the obvious is that they corrupt consciousness with their easiness, with the speed with which they provide one with moral comfort, with the sensation of being right.
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Words are mere tools of the mind
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Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade ...
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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as
agree best with practice.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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Gracious words nourish the soul.
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We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration.
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Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf.
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What comes out of a pure-hearted,
fluently written by an open-minded.
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Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
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To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
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However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
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These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
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A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
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Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.
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Words are cheap. Words are meaningless. And yet I know there is value in them, when they are sincere.
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
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Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
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I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.
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I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.
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The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.
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Appealing than truth and rationality. The words
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
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There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.
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A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.
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Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
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I am a dull fellow ... my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Encouragements are persuasive words.
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.
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Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.
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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
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There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
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Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
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Excuses are a promise of repetition.
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Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge
for mankind in polished speeches
that are no more than vaporous winds
rustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
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Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
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Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought.
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Words are meager things, frail and fickle squandered by the privileged tongue
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
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But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.
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Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
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Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
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Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
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Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.
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Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In
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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.
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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.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
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I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.
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Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.
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Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
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Pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.
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We do not need many words, but, rather, effective words.
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Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
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I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words
changing nothing.
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Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.

That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Sincerity is simplicity.