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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and read more
Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and
reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts
and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which read more
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that
which is abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ.
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves read more
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out
like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, read more
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks