"He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide."
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"Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller."
"Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not."
"Do what you should, not what you may."
"The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord."
"You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do."
"True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work."
"Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased."
"Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control."
"I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize."
"It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!"
"Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people."
"A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it."
"We should wash our dirty linen at home."
"Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation."
"Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us."
"What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else."
"Leaders should be the chief repenters."
"You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read."
"Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others."