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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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