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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
-Deepak Chopra
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
-Confucius
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
-Calvin Coolidge
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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
-Adelaide Crapsey
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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
-Charles Delint
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X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-R A Dickson
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Silence is the mother of truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Not to ask is not be denied.
-John Dryden
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg...
-George Eliot
Felix Holt, ch. 15, 1866
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity School Address, at Divinity College, Harvard University, MA in Addresses and Lectures, 1849, July 15, 1838
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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Silvan Engel
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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
-Ibn Gabirol
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
-Charles De Gaulle
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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
-Kahlil Gibran
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
-Henry Giles
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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
-Thomas Hardy
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
-Mark Helprin
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
-Johann Gottfried Von Herder
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Books about Silence
