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"The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality."
"To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes."
"Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another."
"He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever."
"Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health."
"Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics."
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."
"Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free."
"To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound."
"To women silence gives their proper grace."
"Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom."
"You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence"
"To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are."
"Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!"
"Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile."
"Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics."
"The most effective comeback to an insult is silence."
"My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life."
