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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much mo

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. – Charles Caleb Colton

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. – Terri Guillemets

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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. – Albert Schweitzer

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