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Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There a...more

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should d...more