"and silence is the golden mountain"
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"Tis best to be silent in a bad cause."
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"You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers."
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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
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"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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"Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself."
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest."
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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"
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"My feelings for you shame me into silence."
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"The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken."
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"Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?"
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"Silence moves faster when it's going backward."
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"It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility."
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"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
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"I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems."
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"It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited."
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"Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God"
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"Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word"
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"It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school."
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"By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind."
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