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Speech Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
- Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
- Speech is great, but silence is greater.
- Song is the heroics of speech.
- Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a…
- The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which…
- Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as…
- Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
- Speech is silver, silence is golden.
- In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol…
- Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with…
- Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.…
- Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
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