“Women are best when they are quiet.”
First Healing, and Then Service, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit series, Volume 31, Sermon number 1,836 (April 19th, 1885)
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“China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 57).
“The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.”
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages ))
Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229.
A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words"
However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' "
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Variant: Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), Part II, "Of Poetry".
“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
