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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Religious, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Science, Simple

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• The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Silence, Truth Is, Feels

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• Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

  Pliny the Elder

  Cat, Light, Bird

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Evil, Faces, Form

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 02, 2014

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence

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  I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Writing, Humanity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Philip Van Doren Stern (1964). “The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin”, New York : Paul S. Eriksson

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• I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.

  Tom Folsom

  Mistake, Eye, Hands

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• No fool can be silent at a feast.

  Solon

  Fool

  "The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, Vol. 5". Book translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Little, Brown, p. 417, 1865.

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• He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

  Guru Nanak

  Mean, Son, Night

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• When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Lying, Heart, World

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• Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

  Aaron Hill

  Distance, Writing, Mean

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• The great silent majority.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Majority, Silent Majority

  Address to the Nation on VietnamWar, 3 Nov. 1969. The term silent majority is found as early as 1870, when the Economist (19 Nov.) referred to "the silent majority which so seldom appears at the polls." See Petronius 2; Edward Young 1

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent… we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Creativity, Doors

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• The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

  William Osler

  Teaching, School, Character

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

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• Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

  Jerry Lawler

  Common, Neighborhood, Heard

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• Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. It is a nameless experience, tremendously beautiful, ecstatic, utterly silent, but it gives you the taste of eternity, of timelessness, of something beyond death.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Light, Self

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• Silent guns have virtue.

  Robert Genn

  Gun, Silence, Virtue

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• Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Eye, America, Life Is

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• Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expression, Unity, Mind

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Clouds

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Beautiful, Silence, Melody

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

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• About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

  Teresa of Avila

  Church, Apostle Paul, Should

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• Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Night, Answers

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