Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Silence
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
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