Secrets

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  • One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
        Clifton Fadiman   Best?
  • Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
        Jack London   Best?
  • It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
        Horace   Best?
  • I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • Now comes the mystery.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
        Beverly Nichols   Best?
  • Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
        Brendan Francis   Best?
  • Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
        Klemens Von Metternich   Best?
  • Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
        Alexander Graham Bell   Best?
  • The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
        Flora Whittemore   Best?
  • A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  • Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
        Anne Morrow Lindbergh   Best?
  • Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
        Moses Hadas   Best?
  • You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
        Arlo Guthrie   Best?
  • It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
        Spanish Proverb   Best?
  • The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
        Aristotle Onassis   Best?
  • Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
        Johannes Trithemius   Best?
  • The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.
        S. G. Tallentyre   Best?
  • The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.
        Paul Tillich   Best?
  • The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
        Elsa Barker   Best?
  • In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
        Henri Cartier-Bresson   Best?
  • Daylight follows a dark night.
        Maasai Proverb   Best?

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