"When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments."
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"When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done."
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"I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life."
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"Nature tells every secret once."
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"I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about."
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"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."
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"What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows."
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"A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue."
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"The secret of making progress is to get started."
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"The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious."
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"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration."
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"It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads."
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"To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty."
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"A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance."
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"Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love."
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"Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities."
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"The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels"
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"The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence."
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"He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them."
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"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."
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