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I have loved quiet in a leafy glade
Where boughs embrace above a flowering way,
Deep amber pools at sunset where the stray
Soft twilight colors stain the willow shade
And woodlands where sweet silence dwells.

— Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff

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You, Beloved, are the silvery lake shimmering in the desert of my youth.

The Book of Love (1917)

Love,—the shining goal
Of every human soul.

That vast, beneficent Eternity
Where all things lovely pass to when they die.

Feminism is a rebellion against the ruthless tyranny of the male, an attempt to dethrone his autocratic rule and revert to a more natural sexual equality.

There is a little place in me
That cries like any child,
To be as forest things are, free,
Lonely, and strange and wild!

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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