Best Silent Proverbs
2059 Silent quotes by 1309 unique authors
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent…
— William Hazlitt
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In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay, our Heavenly Father…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness
— Rumi
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But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
— C.S. Lewis
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The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
— Blaise Pascal
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Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of…
— Oscar Romero
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
— Saint Augustine
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It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present…
— Pope John Paul II
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Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
— Josef Pieper
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All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now…
— George MacDonald
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We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His…
— Paul of the Cross
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...I will not be silent any longer.
— John Yarmuth
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There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined,…
— Di Morrissey
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An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
— Unknown Author
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I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve…
— Unknown Author
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Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
— Peter Gay
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by…
— Ayn Rand
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
— Seneca the Younger
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A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like…
— Rajneesh
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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy,…
— Rajneesh
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They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,…
— Anne Frank
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can…
— Doris Day
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