Gov. of Tongue

Cited as Gov. of Tongue. — 7 quotations

Archive

Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.

Patient

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.

Rationality

When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure?

Sulliage

Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind.

Trample

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

Vaunt

Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has.

Wind

Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.