secrete
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1. secrete - Adjective
2. secrete - Verb
Meaning
To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.
We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
My master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.