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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. - Thomas Carlyle The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. - Thomas Carlyle Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends. - Thomas Carlyle Speech is silvern, silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle, A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III, a German proverb Speech is great; but silence is greater. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II) Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. - Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III) I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. - Madison Julius Cawein, Haunters of the Silence The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), In Catilinam (1, 8) Down through the starry intervals, Upon this weary-laden world, How soft the soul of Silence falls! How deep the spell wherewith she thralls, How wide her mantle is unfurled. - Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames) Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Wanderings of Cain The silente man still suffers wrong. - John Payne Collier A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third. - Charles Caleb Colton Silence is a friend who will never betray. - Confucius Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius When wit and reason both have fail'd to move Kind looks and actions, (from success) do prove Ev'n silence may be eloquent in love. - William Congreve When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence. - Pierre Corneille Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. - Samuel Daniel, Complaint of Rosemond (st. 114) He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.] - Abbe Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle), Imagination (IV) Silence has been given to woman the better to express her thoughts. - Louis Claude Joseph Desnoyers Displaying page 2 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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