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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
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“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
Leroy Brownlow Quotes |
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
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“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotes |
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“Silence is the most powerful scream.”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Silence is a source of great strength.”
Lao Tzu Quotes |
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“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
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“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
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“The silente man still suffers wrong.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Tatler", no. 133
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“The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care.”
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling Quotes Source: Aurora (song)
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“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
[It., Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio e figlia.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: La Congiura de' Pazzi (I, 1)
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“Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]”
Pope Boniface VIII Quotes 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.]”
Pope Boniface VIII Quotes 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.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Battle of the Baltic
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“Speech is great; but silence is greater.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott
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“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III)
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“There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and
brain.”
Madison Julius Cawein Quotes Source: Haunters of the Silence
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“When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: In Catilinam (1, 8)
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“And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks,
silent as the shadows.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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“Silence is a friend who will never betray.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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