Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. - Thomas

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

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. New Testament – Bible

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Silence is a text easy to misread. – A.A. Attanasio

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