Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. – Thomas Carlyle

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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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In art economy is always beauty. – Henry James

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This is the beauty of the Quran: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Quran asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and Gods creation in general. – Cat Stevens

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The beauty of The Walking Dead and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, its your backstory, its part of what you are, its what you carry with you every day. – Laurie Holden

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. – C. S. Lewis

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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. – Alexander Hamilton

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Ive got Aspergers syndrome and Im not a very good people person, so Ive always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way – I dont want to marry my car or anything stupid like that! – Gary Numan

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A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways. – J. Mccabe

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