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The silente man still suffers wrong.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Rock of Regard, J.P. Collier's "Reprint", 1576
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But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we
give no just occasion for them.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 133
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The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care.
Author: William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
Source: Aurora (song)
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
[It., Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio e figlia.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: La Congiura de' Pazzi (I, 1)
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Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Author: Pope Boniface VIII
Source: Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law
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Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the
wise.
[Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du
sage.]
Author: Pope Boniface VIII
Source: Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law
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Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Harold (bk. X, ch. II)
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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep,
But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 89)
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There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Battle of the Baltic
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Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II)
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III)
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There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and
brain.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: Haunters of the Silence
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When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: In Catilinam (1, 8)
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks,
silent as the shadows.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Author: Samuel Daniel
Source: Complaint of Rosemond (st. 114)
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He sees only night, and hears only silence.
[Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.]
Author: Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle)
Source: Imagination (IV)
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Silence is the mother of Truth.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Tancred (bk. IV, ch. IV)
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A horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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Stillborn silence! thou that art
Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
Author: Richard Flecknoe
Source: Silence
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Author: Richard Flecknoe
Source: Silence
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Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
Author: Hebrew Proverb
Source: None
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The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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A quiet mind cureth all.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: None
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Author: Cato
Source: None
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The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.
Author: Sir J Davies
Source: None
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Author: Meister Eckhart
Source: None
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Silence gives consent.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: None
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
Author: William James
Source: None
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Author: James Madison
Source: None
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Author: Robert L. Stevenson
Source: None
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
Author: W.W. Story
Source: None
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Author: Johannes Tauler
Source: None
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: None
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He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
Author: Austin O'malley
Source: None
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Source: None
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: None
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Source: None
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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Author: Ibn Gabirol
Source: None
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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Great souls endure in silence.
Author: Friedrich Schiller
Source: None
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What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.
Author: Jonathan Katz
Source: None
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