"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
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"All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?"
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"Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them."
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"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us."
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"I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence."
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"Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along."
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"There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World."
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"The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact."
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"Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you."
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"Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces."
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"I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway."
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"Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent."
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"Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists."
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"If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts."
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"Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier."
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"Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to."
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"Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting."
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"Their silence is enough praise."
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