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" there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not... "
Letters - Page 71
by Francis Bacon - 1854
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Practical Ethics: A Collection of Addresses and Essays

Henry Sidgwick - 1898 - 276 pages
...reconcilable with the solemn expression of beliefs which his office prescribes. The Preacher has said that there is "a time to speak and a time to keep silence," and this ancient wisdom is not yet antiquated. But he has not said that there is a time to speak truly...
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Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 95

1898 - 614 pages
...that singularly rare quality — tact, and had laid well to heart the aphorism of the wise man, that " there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence." And so it came about that the popular Curate and the beauteous Maud were much brought together, and...
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The Acts and Decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem: Sometimes Called the Council ...

Orthodox Eastern Church. Synod of Jerusalem, 1672 - 1899 - 248 pages
...; and in Jine to all pious and Orthodox Christians, our beloved children, health in the Lord. That there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence,* the wise Ecclesiastic admonisheth us, whereby he sheweth that there is a time for everything ; as if...
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For Faith and Freedom: A Novel, Volume 1

Walter Besant - 1900 - 446 pages
...ring and we shall pray for the king ; and wise men, Friend Eykin, will do well to keep silence." " There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. It may be that the time is at hand when a godly man must stretch forth his hand to tear down the Scarlet...
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Special Method in Arithmetic

Charles Alexander McMurry - 1905 - 250 pages
...thing, and helping children too much (a very common fault) weakens and destroys this. In this respect "there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence." The time to speak is when the teacher is working with the class at a common problem which reveals a...
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Special Method in Arithmetic

Charles Alexander McMurry - 1905 - 252 pages
...thing, and helping children too much (a very common fault) weakens and destroys this. In this respect "there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence." The time to speak is when the teacher is working with the class at a common problem which reveals a...
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In the Footprints of Dante

Dante Alighieri - 1907 - 420 pages
...disposed, he will receive unfavourably even words that are good. Hence Solomon says in Ecclesiastic " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." 344 OF THE GROWTH OF THE COMMUNITY il Filosofo che " l' uomo naturalmente è compagnevole animale."...
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Special Method in Arithmetic

Charles Alexander McMurry - 1908 - 248 pages
...thing, and helping children too much (a very common fault) weakens and destroys this. In this respect "there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence." The time to speak is when the teacher is working with the class at a common problem which reveals a...
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The Catholic University Bulletin, Volume 14

Catholic University of America - 1908 - 866 pages
...was, through the genius of St. Thomas, advanced to honor. But all things have their times and seasons. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence, a time of war and a time of peace. When the foe is pressing on the gates of the city the prudent commander...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...in the conduct of every day. (From the Same.) THE BURDEN OF MUCH TALKING THE Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And...
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