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“What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.”

People Joy Secret Share Sorrow Mark Finals Intimacy

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.”

Men Needs Joy Secret Violence He Man Sorrow Silent Thunder Defence Discontent Armour Vaults

Book:Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion

Source: Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion

“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”

Certain Grief Secret Silence Bears Sorrow Load Silence Is Tokens

Book:The Ministry of Song

Source: The Ministry of Song

“I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me”

Thinking Knows Way Feels I Can Self Strong Levels Secret Cry Personality Sorrow Substance

Book:Visions of Cody

Source: Visions of Cody

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.”

Ifs Knows Men Feelings Secret Events Judging Fool Sorrow Tables Notion Know Me Secret Thoughts

Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.”

Joy Secret Source Sorrow

Author:Mark Twain

“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.”

Ifs Joy Walks Secret Knowing Mystery Sorrow Absolutes Extremes Deny Ghost Guise Deep Sorrow

Book:The Jaguar Hunter

Source: The Jaguar Hunter

“What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.”

Feels Secret Sorrow Sufferers Omniscience

Book:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed