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• A closed mouth gathers no foot.

  James Alexander Thom

  Feet, Mouths

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Listening

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Children, Soul, Movement

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• Speech is the small change of silence.

  George Meredith

  Funny, Small Changes, Speech

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 34

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• A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, May, Interviews

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.350

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• Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Speech, Language

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Our World, Symphony, Simplicity

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Great souls suffer in silence.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soul, Suffering, Great Souls

  Friedrich Schiller, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1844). “Don Carlos ... Translated ... by C. H. Cottrell”, p.32

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• Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Wise, Genius, Fool

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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, Noble, Quiet

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

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Beautiful, Silent, Melody

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

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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Real, Applause, Impression

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Create, artist, do not talk.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist

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• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  Samuel Butler

  Golden, Programming, Butlers

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

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

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• A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

  Dante Alighieri

  Deeds, Action, Should

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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• Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
  [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux;
  Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Silent, Dangerous

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• Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Speech, Values

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• Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Poetic, Flattering, Response

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Moments, Eternal

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Heaven, Earth

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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