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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.

    Freedom   Sky   Secret  
  • I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

    Design   Secret   World  
    Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.275
  • But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

    Men   Two   Secret  
  • A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

    A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)
  • So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

  • Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

    Flames   Waiting   Soul  
  • The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

    Running   Men   Ideas  
    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
  • To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

    Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics
  • It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

    Self   Secret   Lucky  
  • Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

    Men   Solitude   Secret  
    Joseph Cook (187?). “God and the Conscience: Love and Marriage”
  • The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

    Cat   Circles   Secret  
    Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”
  • If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

    Men   Judging   Feelings  
    Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press
  • There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

    Motivation   Heart   Men  
    "The King v. Woodfall" (1774), Lofft. 782 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 178-180), 1904.
  • We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

  • Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?'

    Believe   Heart   Men  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 276, 1895.
  • Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  • Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

    Real   Lying   Doors  
  • Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.

  • whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

    Dog   Distance   Cat  
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