Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
“Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.”
“Simplicity,” p. 131
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Sound of the Silence”
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“We dare not even by silence sanction lies.”
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" The Third of February, 1852 http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tfe.htm", st. 2 (1852) <br class="br">Context: We love not this French God, the child of hell,<br>Wild War, who breaks the converse of the wise;<br>But though we love kind Peace so well,<br>We dare not even by silence sanction lies.<br>It might be safe our censures to withdraw,<br>And yet, my Lords, not well; there is a higher law.
