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• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Men, Distrust

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• Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Speech, Eternity

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• Speak low, if you speak love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romance, Speak

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [104]

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Wisdom, Bad Relationship

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

  T. S. Eliot

  Enough, Found

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.86, Faber & Faber

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Covering, Sauce, Speak

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• The rest, is silence.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [372]

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• To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

  Ovid

  Secret, Faults, Serious

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• Music is the space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Art, Weekend

  "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Secret

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  Oliver Herford

  Men, Criminal Mind, Quiet

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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

  Giving, Advantage, Calumny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

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• Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Envy, Contradiction, Arise

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Quality, Dimensions, Realizing

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Sadness

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• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Witty, Hurt

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• Lying is done with words and also with silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Truth, Integrity, Liars

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Practice

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• In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

  Meister Eckhart

  Integrity, Men, Preserves

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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

  Fashion, Together, Majestic

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• Le silence e  ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

  Blaise Pascal

  Space, Infinite, Dread

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.206 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

  Henry Adams

  Believe, Respectable, I Believe

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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