GEMS OF THOUGHT
SILENCE: ITS VIRTUE. Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. —Addison. There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn; there is a mocking silence; there is a respectful silence. —La Rochefoucald. Silence is the safest respondent for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. —Zimmermann. No reproof is so potent as the silent lesson of a good example. —Mary Baker Eddy. Silence is the element in which great Thing fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-form-ed and majestic, into the delights of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. —Carlyle. He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.—Lavater.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 5
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