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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls." »Mother Theresa
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"When Owl is singing, the Night is silence. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." »Marcel Marceau
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky." »Andrew Schneider
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"silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nothing is more useful than silence." »Menander
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"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know." »William Rose Benet
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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." »Samuel Beckett
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"The price of seeing is silence." »Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding"
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"With silence favor me." »Horace
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"silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are." »Martha Grimes, from Hotel Paradise, a novel
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"The rest is silence." »William Shakespeare
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"silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"The most profound statements are often said in silence." »Lynn Johnston
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." »Publilius Syrus
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"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence." »Danish proverb
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"silence is the virtue of fools." »Francis Bacon
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"Oppression can only survive through silence." »Carmen de Monteflores
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"Your very silence shows you agree." »Euripides
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"silence is a friend who will never betray." »Confucius
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"Lying is done with words and also with silence." »Adrienne Rich
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"silence is one great art of conversation." »Anonymous
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"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"Their silence is sufficient praise." »Terence
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