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Thomas Hardy 171
English novelist and poet 1840–1928Related quotes
“Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world”
Letter to Edith Parker Kerouac (28 January 1957); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969 (1999)
“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”
Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827).
1820s
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Vol. 111, No. 666, (October 1977)
“They wonder in silence and turn pale for the dubious thunderbolt.”
Mirantur taciti et dubio pro fulmine pallent.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 920
“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in " Sylla http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/sylla.html" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden
“Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. ”