Secret Quotes - Page 35

• So slowly the hot elephant hearts
  grow full of desire,
  and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
  hiding their fire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Fire, Elephants

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Vices, Tongue

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• There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Motivation, Heart, Men

  "The King v. Woodfall" (1774), Lofft. 782 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 178-180), 1904.

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• The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Past, Way, Transformation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Time, Travel

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Men, Self

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• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Passion, Evil, Vices

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• When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

  Diogenes

  Keys, Two Friends, Mind

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• There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Support, Risk, Rewards

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• Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Mistake, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Japan

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• Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Real, Men, Blood

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• My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

  Philip Sidney

  Issues, Sound, Woe

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Jobs, Men

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• Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

  Barbara Samuel

  Forever, Lasts, Expecting

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• On paper curiously shaped
  Scribblers to-day of every sort,
  In verses Valentines ycled'd
  To Venus chime their annual court.
  I too will swell the motley throng,
  And greet the all auspicious day,
  Whose privilege permits my song
  My love this secret to convey.

  Henry George Bohn

  Song, Valentine, Paper

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• Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Lying, Grief, Thinking

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• I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Luck, Sucess, Talent

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• Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Hands, Temptation

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

  Moses Finley

  Media, Leader, Political

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

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• Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Light, Doubt, Intention

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Work, Toil

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.8

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• He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.

  Jean Racine

  God, Wicked, Holy

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• God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

  Saadi

  Men, Would Be, Done

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.168, Innovations and Information

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