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• For that grudged food thou wilt have no stomach; all gracious speech will die away on thy tongue.✻ (Proverbs 23, 8)

• wisdom hangs high beyond the fool’s reach; tongue-tied he stands when there are consultations at the gate.✻ (Proverbs 24, 7)

• A prince, in his forbearance,✻ may yet be won over to thy cause; hard heart gives place to soft tongue. (Proverbs 25, 15)

• Fool that thrusts himself forward will prove a fool;✻ he had been better advised to hold his tongue. (Proverbs 30, 32)

• Wouldst thou defile thy whole nature through the tongue’s fault? Wouldst thou find thyself saying, with God’s angel to hear thee, No thought I gave to it?✻ Little wonder if God disappoints every ambition of the man who speaks so. (Ecclesiastes 5, 5)

• Sweet are thy lips, my bride, as honey dripping from its comb; honey-sweet thy tongue, and soft as milk; the perfume of thy garments is very incense. (Song of Solomon 4, 11)

• Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)

• A glib tongue, and hands that hang down idle; such be not thine. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 34)

• If discernment thou hast, give thy neighbour his answer; if none, tongue held is best, or some ill-advised word will shame thee; (Ecclesiasticus 5, 14)

• Never win the name of back-biter, by thy own tongue entrapped into shame. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 16)

• Yet, where there is no sin to smite a man’s conscience, a full purse is a blessing, and poverty itself is a great evil when it goes with a blasphemer’s tongue.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 13, 30)

• and thou dost well to believe less than is told thee. Slips there are of the tongue when mind is innocent; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 16)