Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. – Thomas Carlyle

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

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Now all my teachers are dead except silence. – W.S. Merwin

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

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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 one of the hardest arguments to refute. – Josh Billings

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