Khalil Gibran Quotes, Silence Quotes

I learnt silence from the talkative

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Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

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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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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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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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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

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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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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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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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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

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Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

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