Silence Quotes - Page 36

• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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• Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

  William Penn

  Folly, Silence Is

  William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.34

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• The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

  William Hazlitt

  Say Anything, Daring, Behalf

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Passion, Feels

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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• None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

  Henry Fielding

  Kings, Powerful, Passing By

  Covent Garden Journal, June 13, 1752.

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Evening

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Giving, Satan

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Journey, World

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Unity, Energy

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• Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Way, New Ways

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• Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Voice, People, Might

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Diary of a Pilgrimage”, p.41, Read Books Ltd

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Sound, Noise

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• In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

  John Drinkwater

  Sleep, Moon, Apples

  'Moonlit Apples' (1917)

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• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Sky

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Green

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• Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

  John B. Tabb

  Pain, Heart, Clouds

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Responsibility, Home

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• Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

  Pindar

  Noble, Deeds, Ifs

  Pindar (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Pindar (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics

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• Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Eye

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• Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.

  James Shirley

  Mind, Shade, Sound

  James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]”, p.452

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• Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

  Amelia Barr

  Ignorance, Speech, Outraged

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

  Philip Roth

  Self, Mind, Confession

  Philip Roth (1993). “Operation Shylock: A Confession”

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• Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.

  Pico Iyer

  Years, Luxury, Wish

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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