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• Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Desire, Three, Speech

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Quiet People, Communication, Imagination

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• Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Brain, Substitutes, Silence Is

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• There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

  George Henry Lewes

  Insincerity, Justification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quality, Modesty, Conversation

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• Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Doubt, Silent

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.81

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Distance, Lying, Gossip

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• Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Peace, Weather, Personality

  Norman Vincent Peale (1957). “Stay Alive all Your Life”

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• If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

  Pythagoras

  Stones, Firsts, Temples

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• The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosopher

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Testament”, p.151, Souvenir Press

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• Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

  Pythagoras

  Wisdom, Communication, Pythagorean Theorem

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• Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.

  Rajneesh

  Fighting, Relaxation, Mind

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Flower, Light

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• Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

  Zainab Salbi

  Past, Leader, Feelings

  "An In-Depth Interview With Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Moral, Injustice, Virtue

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

  Mary Ruefle

  Long, Landscape, Becoming

  Mary Ruefle (1989). “The Adamant”, p.13, University of Iowa Press

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• There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

  Erich Segal

  Fall, Thinking, Snow

  Erich Segal (2011). “Love Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Music, Ears, Care

  'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

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• So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

  Emily Carr

  Sound, Dialect, Might

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers

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• Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

  Ben Okri

  Expression, Enemy, Speech

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• The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

  Mose Allison

  Idle Chatter, Matter, Idle

  "Celebrated Jazz Musician Mose Allison Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 15, 2016.

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• We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

  Steve Jobs

  Secret, Say Anything, Products

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• Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

  Jimmy Durante

  Teeth, Mouths, Bigs

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