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Cell Notes
2011-09-18 03:39:42 (UTC)

Silence

The more a man's tongue flees verbosity, the more his intellect is illumined so as to be able to discern deep thoughts; for the rational intellect is befuddled by verbosity.
St. Isaac the Syrian
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God has surrounded the tongue with a double wall - with the barrier of the teeth and fence of the lips - in order that it may not easily and heedlessly utter words it should not speak.
St. John Chrysostom
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