Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude,…

Thomas Carlyle
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). Past and Present, p.198
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1872). Past and Present, p.198

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