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I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Edgar Lee Masters—Silence.

Dixisse me, inquit, aliquando poenituit, tacuisse nunquam.
He [Xenocrates] said that he had often repented speaking, but never of holding his tongue.

Valerius Maximus Bk. VII. 2, Ext. 7.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menander—Ex Incert. Comoed. P. 216.

You know
There are moments when silence, prolong'd and unbroken,
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken,
It is when the heart has an instinct of what
In the heart of another is passing.

Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile. Pt. II. Canto I. St. 20.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

Hannah More—Essays on Various Subjects. Thoughts on Conversation.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

D. M. Mulock—Magnus and Morna. Sc. 3.

Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.
John Boyle O'Reilly—Rides of the Road. St.2.

Sed taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus.
But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.
Ovid—Amorum. I. 7. 21.

Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.
The silent countenance often speaks.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. I. 574.

Exigua est virtus praestare silentia rebus;
At contra, gravis est culpa tacenda loqui.
Slight is the merit of keeping silence on a
matter, on the other hand serious is the guilt
of talking on things whereon we should be
silent.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. Bk. II. 603.

Silence sleeping on a waste of ocean.

Percy Somers Payne—Best.

Remember what Simonides said,—that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Plutarch—Morals. Vol. 1. Rules for the Preservation of Health.

Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have
kept his breath to cool his pottage."
Plutarch—Morals. Vol. II. The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. I
La douleur qui se tait n'en est que plus funeste.
Silent anguish is the more dangerous.

Racine—Andromaque. III. 3.

Silence in love bewrays more woe
Than words, though ne'er so witty;
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity.

Sir Walter Raleigh—The Silent Lover. St. 9.

The silente man still suffers wrong.
The Rock of Regard. J. P. Collier's Reprint.
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Christina G. Rossetti—Sonnet. Rest.

Altissima quseque flumina minimo sono labuntur.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
Qutntds Curtius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Allxandri Magni. VII. 4. 13.
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Great souls suffer in silence.
Schiller—Don Carlos. I. 4. 52.

Bekker schweigt in sieben Sprachen.
Bekker is silent in seven languages.

Schleiermacher See Letter of Zelter to Goethe. March 15, 1830.

Wise Men say nothing in dangerous times.

John Selden—Table Talk. Wisdom.

Tacere multis discitur vitas malis.
Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.

Seneca—Thyestes. 319.

Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. l. L. 76.

I'll speak to thee in silence.

Cymbeline. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 29.

The rest is silence.

Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 368.

The saying is true "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 72.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Henry VI—Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 58.

(See also Lyly)

Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 111.

'Tis old, but true, still swine eat all the draff.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 96.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 317.