Silence; see Quiet. O, my Antonio, I do know of these, Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Be silent always, when you doubt your sense, Pope: Essay on Criticism. Silence in woman is like speech in man. Ben Jonson: Silent Woman. Silence more musical than any song. Christina G. Rossetti: Rest. Let me silent be; For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. R. H. Stoddard: Speech of Love. You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. In the heart of another is passing. Owen Meredith: Lucile. God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, Sin; see Conscience, Forgiveness, and Repentance. Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Shakespeare: Pericles. Guiltiness will speak, tho' tongues were out of use. He is no man on whom perfections wait, Shakespeare: Pericles. Count all th' advantage prosp'rous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from, and disdains. Pope: Essay on Man. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, Pope: Essay on Man. There is a method in man's wickedness; It grows up by degrees. Beaumont and Fletcher: King and No King. The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance. Bayard Taylor: Lars. Sincerity, Candor; see Honesty and Hypocrisy. To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI. Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. Tupper: Proverbial Philosophy. To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. Henry Vaughan: Rules and Lessons. His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. Shakespeare: Coriolanus. Skepticism; see Infidelity and Faith. This a sacred rule we find Churchill: Ghost. Let no presuming impious railer tax Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce His works unwise, of which the smallest part Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Slander, Gossip; see Honesty and Truth. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Slander, Shakespeare: Hamlet. Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, Transports his poison'd shot. Shakespeare: Hamlet. I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. Shakespeare: Sonnets. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Who steals my purse, steals trash: 'tis something, nothing: 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shakespeare: Othello. Malicious slander never would have leisure Does not the law of Heaven say blood for blood? The flying rumors gather'd as they roll'd, Slavery; see Freedom and Liberty. Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Southey. I would not have a slave to till my ground, Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs |