"The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-."
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"Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything."
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"Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self."
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"If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent."
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"Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony"
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"The silent bear no witness against themselves."
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"My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto."
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"His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent."
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"Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love."
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"The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water."
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"If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger."
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"Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences."
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"They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent."
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"With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all."
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"Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent."
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"The soul lives there in the silent breath."
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"For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous."
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"The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is."
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"If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger."
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"It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent."
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