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• Who in life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope's tender blossoms Into the silent land!
  -- J. G. Von Salis (1762-1834) -- The Silent Land...
• Lead us in a few words of silent prayer. -- Bill Peterson, former Houston Oiler football coach
• Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. -- G. B. Stea
• Italian Proverb She who is silent consents.
• Most people know how to keep silent but few of us know when.
• In the town where I was born, lived a man who went to sea, and he told us of his life in the land of submarines.
• Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -- Thomas Neill
• Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?
  ... I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas....