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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation…
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that…
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a…
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it…
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though…
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my…
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my…
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach…
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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret…
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now…
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We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most…
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
— Fausto Cercignani
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Take me with you - with you in your dreams Far till to the silver clouds, Reach me your hand And let…
— Fatima Fatimzahra
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