Emily Dickinson Quotes, Silence Quotes, World Quotes

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Moving Quotes , Silence Quotes

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

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My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

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Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Father Quotes , Silence Quotes

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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