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• Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

  Ovid

  Silence, Causes

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Silence, Silence Is

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.623, Library of America

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• I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Makeup, People, Imperfection

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

  Christina Rossetti

  Land, Gone Away, Remember

  'Remember'

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• Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

  Stephen King

  White, Fire, Light

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• Being silent for me doesn't require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, "receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening." With or without words, the hope of my heart is that it will be able to relax and acknowledge the truth of my situation with compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

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• The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Rivers, Silence, Silence Is

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 707-10, Aurora (1604), Song, 1922.

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• Often a silent face has voice and words.

  Ovid

  Voice, Faces

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• Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

  John Dee

  Doe, Should

  John Dee, Gerald Suster (2003). “John Dee: Essential Readings”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Silence, Waiting

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Order, Quiet

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• I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Odds, Two, Silence

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 1872.

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• Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  People, Guy, Groups

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• What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Son, Speaks Out

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• When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Things In Life, Care

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Deny, Testimony

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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• As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer, Mean, Waiting

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• All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Men, Light

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• Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Blessing, Boredom

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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