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

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

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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Silence is medication for sorrow. – Arab Proverb

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Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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