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Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men,Verily I say unto you,They have their reward.But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Why is there always a secret singing When a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer away?

—Sandburg, Carl

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

—Behan, Brendan Francis

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells, Lonely and lost to light for evermore, Save when to thine my heart responsive swells, Then trembles into silence as before.

—Rochdale

Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within; Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.

—Churchill, Charles

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Personne ne garde un secret comme un enfant. No one keeps a secret like a child.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

They live off secrecy†[it] keep the mistakes secret.

—Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

—Congreve,William

Un homme est plus fide'  le au secret d'autrui qu'au sien propre; une femme au contraire garde mieux son secret que celui d'autrui. A man keeps another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time looking under the bed for Communists that they haven't had time to look in the bed.

—Foot, Michael Mackintosh

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

—Arnold, Matthew

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Thereisnosecret so closeasthat betweena riderand his horse.

—Surtees, Robert Smith

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

—Cisneros, Henry

   Glaubt es mir!ödas Geheimnis, um die gr o« Þte Fruchtbarkeit und den gr o« Þten Genuss vom Dasein einzuernten, heiÞt: gef a« hrlich leben! For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment isöto live dangerously.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

—Shaw, George Bernard

She was rich in apparel, but not bedizened with finery† She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

—Trollope, Anthony

   Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Thesecret of managing a ball club istokeepthefiveguys who hate you away from the five who are undecided.

—Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon)

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything† Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection† Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

—Weizsa«  cker, Richard Freiherr, Baron von

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize†only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

—Lehrer,Tom (Thomas Andrew)

  We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 339

—Frost, Robert Lee

The secret things belong unto the L our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children forever, that we maydoall the words of this law.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret†the only wisdom ever to be attained.

—Prather, Hugh

There's no secret.You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

—Vukovich, Bill

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—Townsend, Sue

   I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

—Williams,William Carlos