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He who in any way shows us better than we knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty—as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe?

He who in any way shows us better than we knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty—as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe?

Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial

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Thomas Carlyle
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Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)

Printed citation: Carlyle. · page_150

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