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Show '(5ems of tEbouobt WORDS: THEIR POWER AND BEAUTY i He sent his word, and healed them, arfd delivered them from ' their destructions. Psalms 107:20 Among the sources of those innumerable in-numerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words. George Home. Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. Confucius. Whatever weight in the eternal scale of equity and mercy tips the beam on the right side, where the immortal words and deeds of men alone can settle all questions amicably and satisfactorily. Mary Baker Eddy. Words, like fine flowers, have their colours too. Ernest Rhys. I love smooth words, like gold-enameled gold-enameled fish Which circle slowly with a silken swish, And tender ones, like downy-feathered birds! Words shy and dappled. lieep-eyed lieep-eyed deer in herds. Elinor Wylis |