"What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?"
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"Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion."
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"I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent."
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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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"Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf."
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"Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy."
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"To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent."
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"Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words."
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"Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour."
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"I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]"
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"If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well."
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"God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises."
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"Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror."
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"Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent."
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"Often a silent face has voice and words."
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"I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person."
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"I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep."
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"Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity."
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"The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent."
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"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."
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