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“Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?”

Said Beautiful Secret Feds Beautiful Women Concealed Coarse

Book:A Lost Lady

Source: A Lost Lady

“Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest. Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled. The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.”

Eye Night House Secret Quiet Lays Burning Flames Veils Stairs Concealed Lanterns Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:John of the Cross

“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.”

Children Book Values Secret Identity Taught Lessons Ordinary Rate Crowds Treasure Radical Comic Heroic Comic Book Concealed Ordinary Life Treasured Secret Identity

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.”

Lost Secret Favors Fairy Concealed Discreet

Author:John Dryden

“Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?”

Giving Children Long Ideas Self Sometimes Moments Earth Secret Wonder Break Series Possession Streams Reincarnation Concealed Infallible Utterance Raindrops

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.”

Men Heart Moments Action Lying Passion Natural Secret Bottom Commit Impulse Folds Concealed

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte