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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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. – Elbert Hubbard

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Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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To silence another, first be silent yourself. – Latin Proverb

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