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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs ov

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. – Charles Spurgeon

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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. – Orson Welles

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. – Honore de Balzac

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Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin

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