Quote by Joseph Conrad
A mans most open actions have a secret side to them. - Joseph Conr

A mans most open actions have a secret side to them. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad

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Art
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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Emotions
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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Other Quotes from
Secrets
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Secrets travel fast in Paris. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Secrets

You know there are no secrets in America. Its quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. – W. H. Auden

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Secrets

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

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Secrets

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Secrets

Random Quotes

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

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History

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. – Stanislav Grof

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Death

It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Friendship

Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them…we know that if we treat our employees correctly, theyll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, theyll come back. – J. Marriot Jr.