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silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm.
Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
View quotes by Henry GilesIt's better to stay
silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
View quotes by Mark TwainTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are
silent.
View quotes by Napoleon BonaparteOur lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that happen.
View quotes by Martin Luther King JrJean Harlow - 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?'
Margot Asquith - 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is
silent, as in Harlow.'
View quotes by Margot AsquithThe silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her
silent throat.
View quotes by Orlando GibbonsBetter to remain
silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
View quotes by Abraham LincolnIt 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.
View quotes by PythagorasSilent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
View quotes by Gertrude SteinEvery life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and
silent influence.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic AmielDeath not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a
silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
View quotes by Hannah ArendtA dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain
silent.
View quotes by Pearl BuckAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be
silent.
View quotes by Edmund BurkeLike 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.
View quotes by Lord ByronWhether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep
silent about him who was there for so long.
View quotes by Elias CanettiTo be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be
silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereWe should keep
silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honoured by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the
silent forest.
View quotes by Lao TzuBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is
silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
View quotes by Barbara TuchmanGreat joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be
silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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