"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

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Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Witty Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Communication Quotes

“The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.”
“It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.”

Source : "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.”
“If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.”
“I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.”
“What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?”
“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”
“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”

Source : Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”

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