 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1897 - 230 Seiten
...in darkness ; Thought will not work except in Silence ; neither will Virtue work except in secrecy.' IT is idle to think that, by means of words, any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another. The lips or the tongue may represent the soul, even as a cipher or a number may represent a picture... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1903 - 300 Seiten
...be silent with one whom we do not wish to know, or do not love. — The Treasure of the Humble. 155. It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another. The lips or the tongue may represent the soul, even as a cipher or a number may represent a picture... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1903 - 300 Seiten
...tongue may represent the soul, even as a cipher or a number may represent a picture by Memlincg; but from the moment that we have something to say to each other, we are compelled to hold our peace ; and if • — at such times we do not listen to the urgent commands of silence, invisible... | |
 | Lawrence Gilman - 1907 - 168 Seiten
...literally. "It is idle to think," he observes in that inexhaustibly beautiful essay of his on " Silence," " it is idle to think that, by means of words, any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another. . . . Were I to speak to you at this moment of the gravest things of all — of love, death, or destiny... | |
 | Hildegarde Hawthorne - 1908 - 252 Seiten
...own, which none other understands and which I may teach to none"? Is this isolation to pass away? " It is idle to think that by means of words any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another." Is our growing mastery of the outside world a symbol of what we are to accomplish with ourselves? Is... | |
 | Irving Bacheller - 1909 - 320 Seiten
...tongue may represent the soul even as a cipher or a number may represent a picture by Memlincq ; but from the moment that we have something to say to each other we are compelled to hold our peace ; and if at such times we do not listen to the urgent commands of silence, inaudible though they... | |
 | Irving Bacheller - 1909 - 322 Seiten
...eye, and I said that I would see him soon, which I knew to be likely, and hurried away. CHAPTER VI It is idle to think that by means of words any real communication can ever pass horn one man to another. The lips or the tongue may represent the soul even as a cipher or a number... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1910 - 98 Seiten
...darkness ; 31 Thought will not work except in Silence ; neither will Virtue work except in secrecy.' It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another. The lips or the tongue may represent the soul, even as a cipher or a number may represent a picture... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 384 Seiten
...words by another suffice to set him travelling up and on in his airy path, beginning with the words : " It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another." In this book, again, he introduces a variation upon " The silence of a child is wiser than the speech... | |
 | 1912 - 882 Seiten
...the princess by the hair says : " she could give lessons in innocence to God." In another vein : " It is idle to think that by means of words any real...communication can ever pass from one man to another." He writes of "coming out of the thick air of experience into the crystal inane." May we not justly... | |
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It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another. 
