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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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good
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Thomas Carlyle
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle

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Death
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Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. РDom̩nico Cieri Estrada

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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra

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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. – Polish Proverb

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