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"The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality."
"Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life."
"The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy."
"Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers."
"But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends."
"The secret of success in education is respecting the students."
"It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself."
"Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."
"Actions are visible, though motives are secret."
"He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon."
"The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?"
"It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time."
"From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out."
"I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way."
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none."
"Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret."
"When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public."
"I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it."
"I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe."
"The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good."
