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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-Dame Edith Sitwell
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
-Sydney Smith
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-Sydney Smith
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
-Publilius Syrus
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
-Publilius Syrus
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
-Mark Twain
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Those that are silent profess consent.
-Source Unknown
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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.
-Source Unknown
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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.
-Source Unknown
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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.
-Source Unknown
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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.
-Source Unknown
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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.
-Source Unknown
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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
-Source Unknown
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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-Source Unknown
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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.
-Source Unknown
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
-Source Unknown
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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
-Xenocrates of Chalcedon
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
-Brigham Young
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Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
-Zacharia
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Books about Silence
