Quotes with silent

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  • Oliver Goldsmith In all the silent manliness of grief.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Toni Morrison In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Madeleine Albright It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
    Madeleine Albright
    Czechoslovak-American politician and diplomat. (1937 - 2022)
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  • Anita Hill It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable....
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Victor Hugo Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bayard Taylor Mysterious Flood, that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Simonides Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
    Simonides
    Greek poet (556 - 468)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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