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A secret, if it�s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
The Lake
There are no secrets that time does not reveal
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard
No one keeps a secret so well as a child
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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