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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
“Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when, for very speaking, the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man”
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. V, Stump-Orator (Project Gutenberg #1140)
From the closing counsel to a brave young friend, a reader Carlyle says he has never seen, whom he urges to be and do something rather than talk.
Citation: "Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when, for very speaking, the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. V, Stump-Orator (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q12)
