Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.
They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;_x000D_ _x000D_ We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen,_x000D_ _x000D_ Der stillen Macht der Zeit._x000D_ _x000D_ Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near
Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit him all at once - the place, the company, her words; one implication would lead to another and shatter him - but around that intake of breath the world hung silent and bright, so bright, and Akiva only knew this one thing, and held on to it and wanted to live inside of it and stay there forever. Karou was alive.
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