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Secret Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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