Secrets

(209 votes)   Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(204 votes)   Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(136 votes)   Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(113 votes)   A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(113 votes)   Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(102 votes)   Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(89 votes)   Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(88 votes)   Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(87 votes)   But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(86 votes)   A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(82 votes)   Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(79 votes)   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
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(73 votes)   There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(71 votes)   His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Emily Dickinson
1830-1886, American Poet

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(71 votes)   Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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