hold one's peace
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Very well, then; until one does have something to say, let one hold one's peace.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
I would never choose to jeopardize a relationship, yet if that relationship is full of deception, or other undesirable attributes, and undiscerned by the other, is it noble to hold one's peace?
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann
Where it is so simple if not so easy a thing to hold one's peace, why add to the general confusion of tongues?
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
In a busy highway of a night one must needs talk disconnectedly in shouted snatches or else hold one's peace.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It is not in human nature to be so extravagantly abused in times of intense excitement, and wholly to hold one's peace.
From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
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