| 69 Silence Quotes
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“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”
Samuel Daniel Quotes 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.]”
Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle) Quotes Source: Imagination (IV)
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“Silence is the mother of Truth.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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“Stillborn silence! thou that art
Flood-gate of the deeper heart!”
Richard Flecknoe Quotes Source: Silence
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“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
Richard Flecknoe Quotes Source: Silence
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“Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.”
Hebrew Proverb Quotes |
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“The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“A quiet mind cureth all.”
Robert Burton Quotes |
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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.”
Cato Quotes |
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“The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.”
Sir J Davies Quotes |
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“In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”
Meister Eckhart Quotes |
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“Silence gives consent.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes |
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“It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.”
William James Quotes |
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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.”
James Madison Quotes |
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“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Robert L. Stevenson Quotes |
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“Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.”
W.W. Story Quotes |
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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.”
Johannes Tauler Quotes |
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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.”
Walt Whitman Quotes |
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“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.”
Kin Hubbard Quotes |
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“Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.”
Anon. Quotes |
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot Quotes |
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