“Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.”
Henry David Thoreau
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation ~
Daniel Webster
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
-- Adi Shankaracharya
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. --C.S. Lewis
"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."
- Cherie Carter-Scott
From this package ... Pivotal Thought for the Day
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan
“Should is an ordinary, everyday word -- except when it is used to indicate an order that may not be refused. Then should becomes a finger waving under the nose. …Should users build prison cells for themselves. They are so focused on what they should do -- that they cannot think about what they can do, what they might do in the future.”
-- Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose Dewolf
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer
... Robert Louis Stevenson
Just for fun ... "To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time."
- P.G. Wodehouse's dedication in "The Heart of a Goof"
