Abby May Alcott Quotes, Pride Quotes, Silence Quotes

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Work Quotes , Silence Quotes

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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

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I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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I have an appetite for silence.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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