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“Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.”

Pain Injury Crying Keeping Silent

Book:The Dead Path

Source: The Dead Path

“It was no use beginning to dispute with such indulged, unreasoning creatures: so I held my peace. I was accustomed, now, to keeping silence when things distasteful to my ear were uttered; and now, too, I was used to wearing a placid smiling countenance when my heart was bitter within me.”

Keeping Silent Holding Your Tongue

Book:Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

“Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.”

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Author:Octavia Butler

“Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.”

People Ifs Silence Quality Wonder Doubt Stupid Mouths Silent Opening Enigmatic Keeping Silent

Book:The Spiral Path

Source: The Spiral Path

“My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.”

Stories Use Late Silent Classic Too Late Tragic Terrified Paradigm Keeping Silent

Author:Marco Roth

“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”

Inspirational Sometimes Awareness Buddhism Silent Significant Impression Buddhist Thrive Tibet Remaining Silent Keeping Silent

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.”

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Book:Masquerade and other stories

Source: Masquerade and other stories

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

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Author:Xenocrates

“Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.”

Ifs Years Wish Wonder Lord Laughing Happened Silent Hiding Taunting Signs And Wonders Keeping Silent

Author:Saint Patrick

“I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.”

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Author:Elena Mukhina

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”

Spiritual Evil Justice Generations Integrity Foundation Silent Surface New Generation Reproach Deep Within Burying Keeping Silent

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.”

Moments Challenges Moral Duty Faults Silent Obligation Imperatives Civics Civic Duty Categorical Imperative Keeping Silent

Book:The Rage and the Pride

Source: The Rage and the Pride

“Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.”

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Author:Steve Forbes