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The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.

The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.

The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least.

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

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.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who find the thoughts of men of science compatible with art, influence me far more than most photographers.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

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