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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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. – Edwin Way Teale

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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. – Doris Day

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. – Christopher Morley

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

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