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“Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.”
Proverb
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it”
Mark Twain
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure”
Henri Nouwen
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.”
William Shakespeare
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
Phillip Brooks
“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”
Judy Garland
“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.”
Pam Brown
“Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.”
Elizabeth Bowen
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