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- A smiling face is half the meal.
- Latvian Proverb
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- 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.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- Robert Fripp
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
- Tom Blair
- I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- The unspoken word never does harm.
- Kossuth
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