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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
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To silence another, first be silent yourself.- Latin Proverb
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking – and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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Too many people are afraid of silence. It is as if something has to be happening all the time. But often, with silence, there is more happening. There is a reflection on what was really said to us, what was really meant by the remarks, and, yes, perhaps some passage of thought between that person and ourselves.
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Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.- Thomas Carlyle
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Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.
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We can do more work in the silence than we can by moving the lips and letting the mouth make a continuous noise. That interferes with our own thinking as well as with other people’s. There is a stillness in a thinker’s mind; there is a quietness in a thinker’s presence, where even words are entirely unnecessary.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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We do not act that often jest and laugh; ‘Tis old but true, ‘Still swine eats all the draff.’
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We in the developed world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.–Joan Halifax The Fruitful Darkness)
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We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.
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We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.- Proverb
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We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.- Pierre Nicole
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We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
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Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,–at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
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Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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