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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a

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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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle

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The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. – William Alexander

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The best answer to anger is silence. – Author Unknown

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Silence is exhilarating at first – as noise is – but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. – Edward Hoagland

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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. – Socrates

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