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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Kind words produce their own image in men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. If animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, blundering, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. |
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