--CHAPIN.
Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.--BEECHER.
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.--STERNE.
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as
poisoning the sources of eternal truth.--DR. JOHNSON.
SECRECY.--The secret known to two is no longer a secret.--NINON DE
LENCLOS.
Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhaps
more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by
discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.
A woman can keep one secret,--the secret of her age.--VOLTAIRE.
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, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
--DR. JOHNSON.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is
folly.--HOLMES.
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.--FRANKLIN.
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
--DRYDEN.
SELF-CONTROL.--He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh
a city.--PROVERBS 16:32.
What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern
ourselves.--GOETHE.
He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears,
is more than a king.--MILTON.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.--THOMSON.
He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who will
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