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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. – Thomas Carlyle

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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Honk if you hate noise pollution. – Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker

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Nothing is more useful than silence. – Menander of Athens

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…. We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. – Francis Beaumont

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