--_Longfellow._

2065

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!

2066

No word He hath spoken
Was ever yet broken.

--_Anon._

2067

Many a word at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

2068

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as
to recall a word once spoken.

2069

The unspoken word never does harm.

2070

For want of a word, lives often drift, and remain apart.

2071

RASH, ANGRY WORDS.

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season,
When passion has usurped the throne of reason,
Have ruined many. Passion is unjust,
And for an idle transitory gust
Of gratified revenge dooms us to pay,
With long repentance at a later day.

_Theognis, a Greek._
--_Translated by Frere._

2072

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is
neither hot nor timid.

--_Chesterfield._

2073

Words are but wind, but writing may rise up in judgment.

2074

Stay longer--are two charming words in a friend's vocabulary.

2075

Fair words gladden many a heart.

--_Longfellow._

2076

To a good listener few words will do.

2077

Hard words break no bones, but they sometimes break hearts.

2078

He that would be well spoken of,
Must not speak ill of others.

2079

Kind words are the music of the world.

--_F. W. Faber._

2080

Kind words are a bright oasis in life's great desert.

--_The Coming Age._

2082

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.

--_Shakespeare._

2083

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

--_Dryden._

2084

If word of mine
Have harmed thee, rashly spoken, let the winds
Bear all remembrance of it swift away.

2085

There are words which cut like steel.