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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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The Rule of Life and Love: An Exposition of the Ten Commandments

Robert L. Ottley - 1912 - 264 pages
...16. 5 Matt. xii. 34 ; Luke vi. 45 ; Mark vii. 22. of silence. Bishop Butler, alluding to the text, ' There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence,' drily observes that ' One meets with people in the world who seem never to have made the last of these...
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Sex

Sir Patrick Geddes, John Arthur Thomson - 1914 - 264 pages
...But the child may be caused to offend by cowardly reticence as well as by too great outspokenness. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence, and all sex-education must be differentiated with reference to particular cases. It may be agreed,...
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Wolf-lure

Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle - 1917 - 430 pages
...have my confidence. All—without reservation. I know you to be discreet, sir. But, as St. Paul says, there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. While CastelRozac still held us was the time to keep silence. Now, in the wide plain, on our way to...
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Outlines of Social Philosophy

John Stuart Mackenzie - 1918 - 296 pages
...latter, I should suppose, the words of Sidgwick ' might be taken as final. " 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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Mount Music

Edith Œnone Somerville, Martin Ross - 1919 - 324 pages
...Aunt Bessy, however, potentially Rabelaisian though she might be, was perfectly aware of the fact that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. " See here, Barty," she said, " let you go on now, and tell your mother not to be waiting tea for me....
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The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, Volume 64

1926 - 772 pages
...said nothing, merely nodding her head in acquiescence. Like most married women she had learned that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. " When I was George's age," the Colonel continued, " I realised that ' life is real, life is earnest,'...
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Congressional Serial Set

1949 - 108 pages
...Thine, that we may do Thy will. In Jesus' name. Amen. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 WE KNOW, OUR FATHER, that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. Help us to tell the one from the other. When we should speak, give us the courage of our convictiois....
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 7

1880 - 1128 pages
...entrusted with the command, to say what they themselves would have done under similar circumstances. . . . There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. I trust I shall not be misunderstood if I ask you to remember that the reputation of a general officer...
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Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691

Eugene Aubrey Stratton - 1986 - 502 pages
...who must lose their ancient names." Again he reflected on the lack of assertive action from Plymouth: "There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. We might have been happy, or, at least not so miserable, had some been able or willing to be taught...
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Law in Everyday Life

Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 2009 - 294 pages
...likely to leave his family destitute if she did not take legal action against him, she replied that "there is a time to speak; and a time to keep silence, and that, at the present time, the latter was my duty" (111-12). Like Job, the difficulty of her situation...
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