| Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| silence is the wit of fools. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. -- Vittorio Alfieri |
| Author:
Alfieri, VittorioEra:
1749 |
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Much talking is the cause of danger. silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Saskya Pandita |
| Author:
Pandita, SaskyaEra:
1182 |
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| Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. -- Zeno |
| Author:
ZenoEra:
-335 |
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