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If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then… — Alfred de Vigny
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws… — Nicholas Sparks
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Speech is great, but silence is greater. — Thomas Carlyle
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give… — Joseph Addison
Great souls endure in silence. — Friedrich Schiller
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. — Seneca the Younger
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved… — Brigit of Kildare
The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we… — Francis of Assisi
My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation. — Norma McCorvey
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from… — Sam Manekshaw
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I… — Alexander the Great
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a… — Subhas Chandra Bose
With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in… — Adolf Hitler
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the… — Douglas MacArthur
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of… — Douglas MacArthur
The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have… — Julius W. Gates
The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But… — George W. Dunaway
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at… — Richard G. Scott
America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride… — Unknown Author
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the… — George C. Marshall
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable… — George C. Marshall

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