"Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade."

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Source : James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems: Now First Colledted : in 6 Volumes. Honoria and mammon [u.a.]”, p.452

James Shirley

#Silence Quotes #Mind Quotes #Sound Quotes

“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”
“Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?”
“I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.
“The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.”
“They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'Ã©tat, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.”
“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
“But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our sensesâ€¦are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.”
“My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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