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• Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

  Ron McLarty

  Way, Sometimes, Share

  Ron McLarty (2007). “Traveler”, p.65, Penguin

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• Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Sculpture, Bears

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Science, Space, Infinite

  Pensees no. 233 (1658)

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• To women silence gives their proper grace.

  Sophocles

  Giving, Grace

  Sophocles (1820). “Tragedies”, p.251

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• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Broken Heart, Troubled Relationship, Sticks And Stones

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• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

  James Earl Jones

  Love, Life, Heart

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• There is no diplomacy like silence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Diplomacy

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• Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

  George Eliot

  Expressive

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• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

  Dionysius I of Syracuse

  Wisdom, Speech, Public Speaking

  "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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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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• When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

  Winston Churchill

  Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles

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• Silence is better than unmeaning words.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Silence And Peace

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• Real action is in silent moments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Action, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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  My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  Edith Sitwell

  Funny, Music, Reading

  Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Power, Men

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• God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

  Woody Allen

  God, Witty, Humorous

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• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Angel

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Lying, Speech

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Heart, Language

  "Raja Yoga".

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