Beware of speaking. Speech is human, Silence is divine: yet also brutish and dead; therefore we must learn both arts, they are both difficult.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Notebook (1830-10)
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Carlyle, Thomas - Notebook (1830-10) | WIST Quotations
Beware of speaking. Speech is human, Silence is divine: yet also brutish and dead; therefore we must learn both arts, they are both difficult. Carlyle further developed this theme in Sartor Resartus (1834).WIST Quotations