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SILENCE, WORSHIP OF

Carlyle's name for the sacred respect for restraint in speech till "thought has silently matured itself, ... to hold one's tongue till _some_ meaning lie behind to set it wagging," a doctrine which many misunderstand, almost wilfully, it would seem; silence being to him the very womb out of which all great things are born.

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