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Quotes about secrets
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. (Carmichael Stokely)
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down. (Carmichael Stokely)
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. (Carmichael Stokely)
Secrets travel fast in Paris. (Carmichael Stokely)
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. (Carmichael Stokely)
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. (Carmichael Stokely)
Secrecy is the badge of fraud. (Carmichael Stokely)
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. (Carmichael Stokely)
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. (Carmichael Stokely)
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. (Carmichael Stokely)
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part. (Carmichael Stokely)
Three can keep a secret if two are dead. (Carmichael Stokely)
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. (Carmichael Stokely)
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. (Carmichael Stokely)
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. (Carmichael Stokely)
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. (Carmichael Stokely)
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. (Carmichael Stokely)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. (Carmichael Stokely)
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. (Carmichael Stokely)
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. (Carmichael Stokely)
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. (Carmichael Stokely)
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. (Carmichael Stokely)
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. (Carmichael Stokely)
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. (Carmichael Stokely)
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. (Carmichael Stokely)
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