Quotes with secret

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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Frost We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Golda Meir We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Michael Ondaatje What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
    The Cat's Table (2011)
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William R. Alger What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Walt Disney When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Jack Kornfield When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Sandburg Why is there always a secret singing When a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer away?
    The Lawyers Know Too Much l. 16 (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Hugh Reginald Haweis Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
    Hugh Reginald Haweis
    English cleric and writer (1838 - 1901)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • W. H. Auden You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Percy Ross You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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