Top Silent Quotes
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
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Richard M. Nixon All Silent Quotes
Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story 
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
William C. Bryant
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus Hare
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
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Popular Silent Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonMark TwainSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillGilbert K. ChestertonAbraham LincolnGeorge Eliot HoraceMartin Luther King, Jr.Honore De Balzac
Kahlil GibranNapoleon BonaparteGertrude SteinRichard M. NixonLao TzuBryant H. McGillCatherine DeneuveMiguel De CervantesJames MadisonNapoleon HillPublilius SyrusJean de la BruyereSigmund FreudJim RohnWilliam Butler Yeats
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