“Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.”
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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
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