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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use
be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Building
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There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and the walls
Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;
Pillars and doors all were of brass;
Windows of latten were set with glass;
It was so rich in many wise,
That it was like a paradise.
Author: Sir Bevis of Hamptoun
Source: a manuscript in Caius College
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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; . . .
Author: Bible
Source: Ephesians (ch. II, v. 14)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: I Kings (ch. VI, v. 7)
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The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of
the corner.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXVIII, v. 22)
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Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: Prologue to the Double Gallant (l. 15)
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Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. V, l. 144)
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A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (vol. II, ch. VI)
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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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Of History
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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As best gem upon her zone.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Problem
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Problem
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An arch never sleeps.
Author: James Fergusson
Source: History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (p. 210)
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Architecture is frozen music.
[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Conversation with Eckermann
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Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: A Long Story
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No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence.
Author: Bishop Reginald Heber
Source: Palestine (l. 163)
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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.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: Confidential Letters to August Lewald on the French Stage (letter 9), translated by C.G. Leland
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Author: Philip Johnson
Source: in the "New York Times"
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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.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: Prose Idylls--My Winter Garden
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In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Builders (st. 5)
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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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. III, In the Cathedral)
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Ah, to build, to build!
That is the noblest of all the arts.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Michael Angelo (pt. I, II, l. 54)
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There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.
Author: Edwin Lutyens
Source: in "Country Life" magazine
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Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 710)
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Nor did there want
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 715)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 730)
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