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• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

  Publilius Syrus

  Regret, Silence, Has Beens

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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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• Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Desire, Path, Faces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Silence, Seekers

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.204, Vintage

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• Be silent in a group of people
  See what they reveal to you.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Groups

  Yoko Ono (2013). “Acorn”, p.88, Algonquin Books

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• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

  Josh Billings

  Communication, Anger, Parenting

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

  Jeremiah

  Wise, Silence, Intellectual

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The man dies in all those that keep silent.

  Wole Soyinka

  Men, Dies

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• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Music, Song, Silence

  "Rest" l. 10 (1862)

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Silence, Safe, Betray

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

  William Wetmore Story

  Expression, Silence, Noble

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.308

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• Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

  Rumi

  Land, Want, Language

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• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2011

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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Yoga, Foundation

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• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  Pythagoras

  Silence, Hazards, Useless

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• If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

  Jess Walter

  Police, Doe, Needs

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• Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Silence, Spheres, Speech

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1857). “Songs of Summer”, p.12

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• If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Speaks Out

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