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Quote by Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword. – Samuel Johnson

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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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A silent mouth is melodious. – Proverb

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