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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Past, Expectations

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men, World, Intention

  "See It Now (A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer)". Documentary (interview with Edward R. Murrow), January 4, 1955.

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• Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.

  John Scarne

  Use, Winner, Belly

  John Scarne (1990). “Scarne on Cards”, Signet

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• We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

  James Martineau

  Hands, Remembrance, Faithful

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Thinking, Adults

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

  Mike Tyson

  Care, Togetherness, Loved Ones

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Keeping Secrets, Waiting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

  Igor Babailov

  Trust, Share, Ifs

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• The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Shaving, Legs

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Age, Earth

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• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Devil

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• Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
  And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
  Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
  The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Night, Flames

  "The Dark Night Of The Soul" by John of the Cross, Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt, 1994.

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• Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

  Hugh Prather

  Forgiving, Ancient

  1982 The Quiet Answer.

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• Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

  Arthur Helps

  Importance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

  Demosthenes

  Clouds, Secret Places, Denial

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• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Vampire, Tasks

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, World

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Anxiety, Honor

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Hands, Crafts

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• But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

  Anthony Trollope

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1345, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

  Jacques Derrida

  Heart, Jew

  Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (1999). “Jacques Derrida”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Want, Christ

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