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• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Prudence, Folly

  "De Oratore", III. 35, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47,

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• The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Silence, Truth Is, Feels

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• Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Children, Dark, Woods

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.83

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• Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

  Aaron Hill

  Distance, Writing, Mean

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• Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Pride, Silence, Physicians

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• Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expression, Unity, Mind

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• Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Mean, Doe, Gender

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• Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Soul, Secret, Faces

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• Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.97, Sophia Institute Press

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• He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

  Guru Nanak

  Mean, Son, Night

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• About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

  Teresa of Avila

  Church, Apostle Paul, Should

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• I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.

  Tom Folsom

  Mistake, Eye, Hands

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• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent… we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Creativity, Doors

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• When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Lying, Heart, World

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• Silent guns have virtue.

  Robert Genn

  Gun, Silence, Virtue

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• Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Evil, Giving

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.255

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• It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Speak, Judgment

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Stars, Sunset

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  I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Writing, Humanity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Philip Van Doren Stern (1964). “The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin”, New York : Paul S. Eriksson

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• The great silent majority.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Majority, Silent Majority

  Address to the Nation on VietnamWar, 3 Nov. 1969. The term silent majority is found as early as 1870, when the Economist (19 Nov.) referred to "the silent majority which so seldom appears at the polls." See Petronius 2; Edward Young 1

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• The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

  William Osler

  Teaching, School, Character

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wall, Moon, Purple

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• There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, World, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.901, Harvard University Press

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• The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Beautiful, Silence, Melody

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2032, Delphi Classics

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• With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Sensitive, Enlightened

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