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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Grief, Light, Dumb

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Charity, Silence Is

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.27, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Voice, Way, Silence Is

  "Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes". Book by Jacob Morton Braude, 1957.

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• There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.

  Nicholas Udall

  Honestly

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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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.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rocks, White, Shadow

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

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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 a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Heaven, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

  Seth Rogen

  Alzheimer's, Government, Community

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Safe, Silent, Betray

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

  Euripides

  Silence Is, True Wisdom

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• Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

  Ovid

  Causes, Silent

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• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Unbearable, Silence Is, Repartee

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• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Saying Nothing, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

  Aeschylus

  Speech, Misery, Purifying

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• I'm exhausted from not talking.

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

  Talking, Exhausted, Not Talking

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• A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

  William Shenstone

  Gains, Deference, Persons

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.52

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• If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Desire, Tongue

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.63

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• Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Sorrow, Thirsty

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• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  Edith Wharton

  Literature, May, Speech

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1366, Delphi Classics

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Listening

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• Speech is the small change of silence.

  George Meredith

  Funny, Small Changes, Speech

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 34

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