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- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
- 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
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
- Mary Stewart
- My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
- Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
- The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
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