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• You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

  Jenna Morasca

  Different

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• Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

  Horace

  Passion, Wine, Affair

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Sin, Should

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3684, Delphi Classics

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• People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

  J. C. Ryle

  Fall, Long, People

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• The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Sight, Bridges

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Character, Men

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• Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

  Bill Vaughan

  Holiday, Discipline, Inventory

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• He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
  [He that tells a secret is another's servant.]

  George Herbert

  Servant

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.383

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• O let us still the secret joy partake,
  To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

  Alexander Pope

  Joy, Sake, Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.131

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• My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Makeup, Simple, Thinking

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• Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

  Lulu

  People, Forever, Skins

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• The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

  Steven Tyler

  Rocks, Talking, Enlightenment

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• In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Water, Stones

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• The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.

  Zendaya

  Fun, Memories, Creating

  "Zendaya Spills 'Shake It Up' Movie Deets". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Sound, Driving, Pupils

  The Scouter Magazine, January 1912.

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• The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving

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• there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!

  Ann Bridge

  Numbers, Names, Envy

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• How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

  Celestine Sibley

  Achievement, Advice, Stubborn

  Celestine Sibley (1975). “Day by Day with Celestine Sibley”, Doubleday Books

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• The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Soul, Way, Persons

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

  Barbara Neely

  Family, Air, Heal

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• The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Sleep, Companionship, Habit

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• Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.

  Judy Delton

  Writing, Wonderland, Littles

  Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books

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