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• Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Science, Simple

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• The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

  John Main

  Silence, Meditation, Challenges

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.

  Derek R. Audette

  Exercise, Rights, People

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• Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Responsibility, Government, Names

  Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Profound, Depth

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• All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Needs, Existence

  "The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press". Book by Rajneesh, 1985.

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• Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

  Pliny the Elder

  Cat, Light, Bird

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

  William C. Bryant

  Window

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Hunter's Serenade”

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• Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

  Fran Lebowitz

  Strong, Equality, Men

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.157, Vintage

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence

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• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  William Hazlitt

  Stars, Reality, Sky

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Giving, Church

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

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

  Ovid

  Silence, Secret, Faults

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Clouds

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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• Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Night, Answers

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• In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Sweet, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.9

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• As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Moving, Moon

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.310, Delphi Classics

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• The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Mind, Should, Defence

  Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin

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• Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

  Homer

  Wise, Wine, Laughing

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• No fool can be silent at a feast.

  Solon

  Fool

  "The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, Vol. 5". Book translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Little, Brown, p. 417, 1865.

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• Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

  Giacomo Puccini

  Color, Drawing, Cold

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