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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.
When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.
Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.
The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence
In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.
Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.
Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.
Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies