Secret Quotes - Page 23

• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Dying

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

  Chanakya

  Speaks Out, Political, Wish

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• The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, History, Ignorant

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.449

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

  Napoleon Hill

  Matter, Way, Attention

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• Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Thinking, Courses

  Interview with TalkAsia, November 2007.

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Tunnels, Bridges

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• The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life. Inna Segal offers invaluable insights into the underlying causes of illness and disease and provides practical advice which will undoubtedly empower many to self-heal. So read on and learn from the wisdom of this book, which can guide you to the life you were truly meant to live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Book, Self, Advice

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• In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
       culture.

  Adrienne Rich

  Powerful, Lying, Culture

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution”, p.198, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Government, People, Politician

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Self, Want, Littles

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• Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Believe, Progress

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• Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Successful, Resources

  "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.

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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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• When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

  Owen Feltham

  Keys, Two Friends, Locks

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

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• Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Night, Sky

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Order, Law, Appreciate

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• I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Greatness, Animal

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Life Is, Finest

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Philosophy, Love You

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Men, Common

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• The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

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• Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Patient

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• We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

  Steve Jobs

  Silence, Say Anything, Products

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