What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, i…

Thomas Carlyle
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1881). Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished, p.45
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1871). The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.247
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1843). Past and Present, p.36
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a … ▶

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

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