"'Twas Zeno's Advice to Dip the Tongue in the Mind before one should Speak."
— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed for Jonas Browne
Date
1715
Metaphor
"'Twas Zeno's Advice to Dip the Tongue in the Mind before one should Speak."
Metaphor in Context
All those who have given Rules for Civil Life, have, in order to it, put very severe Restrictions upon the Tongue, that it run not before the Judgment. 'Twas Zeno's Advice to Dip the Tongue in the Mind before one should Speak; and Theophrastus was us'd to say, It was safer trusting to an unbridled Horse, than to intemperate Speech; and daily Experience confirms this Aphorism, for those who set no Guard upon their Tongues are hurried by them into a thousand Indecencies, and very often into real considerable Mischiefs; and whereas Men should keep a Lock upon their Lips, they give their Tongue the Key of their Heart, and the Event hath been often as Unhappy, as the Proceeding was Preposterous.
(p. 23)
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Citation
Miscellaneous Essays (London: Printed for Jonas Browne, 1715). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
09/22/2013
