"I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent"
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"Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang"
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"About what one can not speak, one must remain silent."
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"He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent."
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"We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved."
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"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness"
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"Hear, see, and be silent."
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"I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power."
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"Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens."
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"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."
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"But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible."
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"I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out."
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"There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers."
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"I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent."
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"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
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"You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation."
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"Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]"
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"One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk."
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"Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence."
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"Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God."
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