 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1851
...read. Advice, it is said, is only powerful when it puts into language the secret oracle of our souls. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence ; and the time for speech is not at that moment when, through passion or excitement, the voice of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1852
...to time to publish any such revocations or addi« tions. AN EXPOSTULATION LOUD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE. MY VERY GOOD LORD, Though it be true, that " he who...and so "there is a time to speak, and a time to keep their labour, and cannot charm the deaf adder. God, therefore, before his Son that bringeth mercy,... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1852
...cutting self-reproaches, is not the season for rebuke ; and He who by His Spirit had before said, " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," would not unnecessarily " bruise the broken reed." He no doubt recognised, even in the gushing accents... | |
 | 1852
...essentially healthy. It is false, or partial culBISHOP BUTLER ON TALKATIVENESS. THE wise man observes, that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. One meets with people who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1855 - 551 pages
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 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859
...time to time to publish any such revocations or additions. AN EXPOSTULATION LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE. MY VERY GOOD LORD, Though it be true, that " he who...yet, " there is a season for every action," and so •-tii. .n- is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." There is a time when the words of a poor... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859
...these, they may be as free and easy and unreserved as they can desire. 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... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1859
...such a star from its sphere ? Oh ! Alice ! Alice! Alice!" 268 CHAPTER X. " 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." BISHOP... | |
 | Stephen Grellet - Quakers - 1860
...service the Lord required of me. May I ever be preserved under the guidance of his blessed Spirit. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. I then went to Bath, and had a meeting with Friends, also in silence. In the evening a large one was... | |
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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... 
