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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Soul, Lips, Communes

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• True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.

  Rajneesh

  Dance, God, Art

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• They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

  Nhat Hanh

  Silence, Criticism, World

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Thinking, Civilization, Ideas

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• Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Flower, Space

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.1, l.15-18.

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• They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

  Andrew Holleran

  Song, Eye, Dancing

  Andrew Holleran (1978). “The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel”, William Morrow & Company

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• There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Struggle, Hero

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• Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Mean, Self

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

  Publilius Syrus

  Speech, Speak, Knows

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• What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

  Mary C. Ames

  Beauty, Powerful, Sight

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• To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

  Alan Watts

  Silence, Stopping, Looks

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Heart, Glasses

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• He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Silence, Doe, Speak

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• The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Communication, Law, Would Be

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Loneliness, Solitude, Wish

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• Laws are the silent assessors of God.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Law

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• There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.416, Modern Library

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• Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

  Francois Fenelon

  Order, Soul, May

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• It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

  Saadi

  Secret, Secrecy

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Teacher, Responsibility, Parent

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Utterance, Trouble, Trifling

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• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

  Seneca the Younger

  Favour, Speak

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• Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Men, Understanding, Peculiar

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