It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
In some causes silence is dangerous.
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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