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“There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.”

Feels Humans Has Beens Lost Secret Mistake Half Forever Relation Chiefs Crowns Compensation Blessedness

Book:Romola: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”

Soul Done Past Used Dies Dark Sin Secret Half Pure Daughter Conscience Faults Intention Harm Forests Poison My Daughter Bothered Detached Resigned Scruples Pure Soul

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.”

World Way Secret Half Known Wonderful Marvellous

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.”

Trying Years Has Beens Said Past House President White Secret Half Five Five Years White House President Obama Fence Jumping Incidents Other Half Secret Service Intruders

Author:Conan O'Brien

“.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!”

Knows Persons Long Doe Names Hours Walks Secret Half Four Sea Planets Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Location Filling Long Hours Anglers

Author:Tony Bishop

“Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.”

Thinking World Kind Dream Happens Dies Secret Half Millions Knowing Four Wife Happened Mountain Bases Dollars Spots Vacation Day To Day Fabulous Million Dollars Mansions

Author:Jack Canfield

“There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.”

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Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.”

Ifs Men May Stills Wanted Sound Voice Secret Half Slavery

Book:The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic

“I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.”

“The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.”

Littles Self Secret Half Opinion Too Much Self Love Conversation Mark

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.”

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Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.”

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Author:Orison Swett Marden

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”

Men May Wisdom Secret Half Wise Being Wise Keeping Secrets Kept Secrets Darkest Secrets

Author:E. W. Howe