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Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. – Unknown
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. – Chinese Proverb
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read. – Mark Twain
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. – Charles Scribner, Jr.
Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) – Muhammad Ali
Music is the soul of language. – Max Heindel
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. – Eric Hoffer
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. – Galileo Galilei
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. – Robert E. Lee
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities. – John A. Rassias
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. – Mario M Cuomo
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? – George Carlin
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love." - Amit Ray in the book Om Chanting and Meditation. – Amit Ray
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. – Paul Valery

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