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“If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.”

Ifs Firsts Wish Secret Secrecy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead”

“Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.”

Life Is Wish Secret Darkness Guilty Secrecy

Book:Romola: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.”

Ifs Believe Persons Stills Matter Wish Secret Circumstances Concerned Regard Scandal Secrecy

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”

Mind Wells Heart May Stills Faces Wish Secret Watches Citizens Tongue Cheerful Spears Good Wishes

Author:Solon

“Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.”

Winning Wish Secret Talking Confidence Vanity Confidant

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.”

Ifs Humans Heart May Mean Stills Form Language Wish Felt Prayer Secret Longing Recess Human Language

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”

Facts Wish Secret Hiding Keeping Secrets Kept Secrets

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.”

World Feels Littles Wish Parent Secret Regret Needed My Family I Regret Kinder Center Of The World

Author:Jason Mraz

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

People Giving Wish Secret Laughing Successful Secret To Success

Book:The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Source: The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!”

Trying Facts Names Wish Enjoy Levels Numbers Secret Democracy Theory Standards Presses Western British Envy Preaching Rejected Respectable Despised Large Numbers

Author:Ann Bridge

“The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.”

Political Speak Wish Secret Masters Foolish Speaks Out

Author:Chanakya

“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source: Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.”

Life Action Order Wish Secret Magic Leap Penetrate Magic Of Life

Author:Lu Yen-hsun