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• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage
  and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,--the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr....
• The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God!
  hou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me...
• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,--"Speech is silvern, Silence is golde
  or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity....
• Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale
  were I a swan, the part of a swan. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xvi...
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• He did not care a button for it. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi
• Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi...
• The pen is the tongue of the mind. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap.
  xvi...