Silence
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epictetus

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

John Muir

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

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