Silence often expresses more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. 4990 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, House of Commons, Aug. 1, 1862. Administration of Viscount Palmerston. There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. 4991 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Endymion. Ch. 35. Let us be silent, so we may hear the whisper of the gods. 4992 Emerson Essays. Friendship. Solon having been asked by Periander over their cups (лua oто1), since he happened to say nothing, Whether he was silent for want of words or because he was a fool, replied: "No fool is able to be silent over his cups.' 4993 Epictetus: Fragments. LXXVI. (Long, Trans.) Silence gives consent. 4994 Oliver Goldsmith: The Good-Natured Man. Act ii. We may give more offence by our silence than even by impertinence. 4995 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 173. Silence is the essential condition of happiness. Heine Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. The Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. 4997 James Hervey: Meditations. Contemplations on the Starry Heavens. Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. 4998 Hippocrates: Plutarch's Morals. (Shilleto, Silence! the pride of reason. 4999 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 5. It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say. 5000 5001 Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself. 5002 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 79. There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn: there is a silence of discretion and of respect. La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. Reflections on Various Subjects. On Conversation. 5003 How victorious is silence! 5004 Longfellow: Hyperion. Introductory Note. That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says there is not only an art, but even an eloquence, in it. 5005 Hannah More: Essays on Various Subjects. Silence is the greatest persecution: never have the saints held their peace. 5006 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. xxiv. lxii. (Wight, Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. 5007 Plutarch: Morals. On Education. (Shilleto, Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is, like the sword in thy scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand; if thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. 5008 Quarles Enchiridion. Cent. iii. No. 32. Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool, and speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known a wise man, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so. It is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance. 5009 Quarles: Enchiridion. Cent. iii. Silence is the gratitude of true affection. Thought is silence. 5011 No. 57. Sheridan: Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 1. The silence of a wise man is more wrong to mankind than the slanderer's speech. 5012 Wycherley: Maxims and Reflections. SIMILARITY. SIN Like begets like the world over. 5013 A. Bronson Alcott: Table-Talk. III. Pursuits. Nobility. Our young men are terribly alike. 5014 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. On Vagabonds. see Envy, Hell, Jesus Christ, Solitude. Every sin provokes its punishment. 5015 A. Bronson Alcott: Table-Talk. III. Person. God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained. 5016 Horace Bushnell: Nature and the Supernatural. Ch. 11. Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it. Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. Con- Poverty and wealth are comparative sins. 5018 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea. Pt. i. Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. Le Sage: Gil Blas: Bk. vii. Ch. 3. (Smollett, My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together. 5020 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. 5021 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth. A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. 5022 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. SINCERITY see Eloquence, Friends, Friendship, It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. 5024 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) 5025 C. A. Bartol: Radical Problems. Individualism. A silent, great soul; he was one of those who cannot but be in earnest; whom Nature herself has appointed to be sincere. 5026 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Sincerity is the way to heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of man. 5027 Confucius: The Doctrine of the Mean. Ch. 20, ... is The superior man . . . in regard to his speech anxious that it should be sincere. 5028 Confucius: Analects. Pt. xvi. Ch. 10. (Legge, Translator.) Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. 5029 Owen Felltham: Resolves. Pt ii. Of Promises A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity. 5031 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent." 5032 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people. What we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. 5033 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 62. Weak persons cannot be sincere. 5034 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 316. Pope. Sincerity is impossible unless it pervade the whole being; and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. 5035 Lowell: My Study Windows. The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he give himself for a principle. 5036 Lowell: Among My Books. Rousseau and the Sincerity is the way of heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man. 5037 Mencius: Bk. iv. Pt. i. Ch. 12, Sec. 2. (Legge, The happy talent of pleasing either those above or below you seems to be wholly owing to the opinion they have of your sincerity. . . . There need be no more said in honor of it than that it is what forces the approbation of your oppo nents. 5038 There is no time so miserable but a man may be true. Shakespeare: Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3. Steele: The Spectator. No. 280. 5039 SINGERS. Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares. Martin Luther: Table Talk. Of Universities, (Hazlitt, Translator.) Arts, etc. No. 839. see Song, Voice, The. Among all the instruments which sound in Haydn's child's concerts, that best serves the purposes of educational music which is born with the performer, the voice. In the childhood of nations speaking was singing. Third Fragment. Ch. 5. Music. For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and singing of anthems. 5042 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. ii. Act i. Sc. 2. I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. 5043 Shakespeare: A Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. SKILL. There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. 5044 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Behavior. All skill ought to be exerted for universal good. 5045 SKY, The. Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 6. This can The appar The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. not be owing to anything in the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. ent disorder augments the grandeur; for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion as makes it impossible, on ordinary occasions, to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity. 5046 Burke: On the Sublime and Beautiful. Pt. i. The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. 5047 James Hervey: Meditations. Contemplations of the Starry Heavens. Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. 5048 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. ii. Sec. iii. Ch. 1. |