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For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; . . .
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Bible
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
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The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
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Bishop Reginald Heber
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.
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Charles Dickens
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
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Charles Kingsley
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.
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Colley Cibber
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
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Edwin Lutyens
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Heinrich Heine
When I lately stood with a friend before the cathedral of Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions Ueberzeugungen, we moderns have opinions Meinungen and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives Were builded, with his own, into the walls, As offerings unto God.
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John Milton
Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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John Milton
Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.
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John Milton
The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high, Where scepter'd angels held their residence, And sat as princes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
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