Thomas Carlyle's Quote - Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is

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

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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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History, a distillation of rumour. – Thomas Carlyle

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