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To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is f

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Strangers
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

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Wisdom

The prince who would know all, must ignore much. – Domitius Afer, translated from Latin

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Wisdom

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

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Wisdom

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. – Bob Woodward

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Wisdom

Random Quotes

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. – Ken Harrelson

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Golf

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion. – Paul Gardner

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Soccer

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. – Theophile Gautier

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Admiration

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly My Sisters Keeper. It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change peoples minds. – Jodi Picoult

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alone