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• The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mother, Prayer, Moving

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• Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Objects

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• There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Life, Music, Time

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  Marcel Marceau

  Funny, Music, Done

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

  Zeno of Elea

  Men, Imperfection, My Own

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• Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

  George Bernard Shaw

  Conspiracy, Decency

  'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Decency'

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Voice, My Heart

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

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• Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Speech, Judgment, Verdict

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5034, Delphi Classics

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Physicians, Pedants

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• Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

  Evan Esar

  Art, Communication, Vocabulary

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• Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

  Myrtle Reed

  Wisdom, Giving, Myrtle

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Art, Believe, People

  Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31

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• I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

  Calvin Coolidge

  History, Harm, Said

  " Svennis, Dorothy and the stories that should not be told" by Harry Pearson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

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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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Shallow Person, Speech

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• Silence is safer than speech.

  Epictetus

  Speech, Quiet, Silence Is

  Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

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• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  Pythagoras

  Hazards, Useless, Pearls

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• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

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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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Dull, Welcome

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Answers

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  Silence is argument carried out by other means.

  Che Guevara

  Positive, Witty, Powerful

  "Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions". Book by Earl Ernest Guile, 2005.

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• A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

  Susan Griffin

  Inspirational, Writing, Speech

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• Silence is become his mother tongue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mother, Tongue, Silence Is

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 2

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