Quote #51

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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  3. Love not Pleasure; love God.
  4. The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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  6. That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  7. Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
  8. France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

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