silence quotes

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
If you keep your mouth shut, even the gods can do nothing to you.
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
The rest I keep silent; a great ox stands on my tongue.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
silent as a man being shaved.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that ...
Life became a pregnant silence, but it was understood that the silence was to lead nowhere.
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