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• La transición del libro de un autor a su conversación es con demasiada frecuencia como la entrada en una gran ciudad, después de una perspectiva lejana. A lo lejos, no vemos más que agujas de templos y torreones de palacios, y nos la imaginamos como la residencia del esplendor, la grandeza y la magnificencia; pero cuando hemos cruzado las puertas, la encontramos perpleja de estrechos pasajes, deshonrada con despreciables casas de campo, abarrotada de obstrucciones y nublada por el humo.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miedo, Libro, Escritura

  Samuel Johnson (1827). "The Rambler", p.13

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• It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

  Oswald Spengler

  Campo, Tierra, Ciudades

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.246, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

  Laini Taylor

  Mind, Shadow, Hints

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• Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Silence, Silent

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.603

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• An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Estrellas, Hombres, Cielo

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

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• Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Done, Steeples

  Song: Up Up Up Up Up Up, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Sweet, June

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 19

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• And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Progress, Strive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). "El Emerson portátil: New Edition", p.32, Penguin

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• Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Forever, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

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• ¿Qué plantamos cuando plantamos un árbol?
  Mil cosas que vemos a diario,
  Plantamos la aguja que sobresale del peñasco,
  Plantamos el asta para la bandera de nuestro país;
  Plantamos la sombra libre del sol ardiente,
  Plantamos todo esto cuando plantamos un árbol.

  Enrique Abadía

  Campo, Árbol, Sol

  Henry Abbey, "¿Qué plantamos?"

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• Vi las agujas de Oxford Cuando pasaba por allí, Las grises agujas de Oxford Contra un cielo gris perla. Mi corazón estaba con los hombres de Oxford que fueron al extranjero a morir.

  Winifred Mary Letts

  Heart, Men, Passing By

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Cities, Transition

  Samuel Johnson (1827). "The Rambler", p.13

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• I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bridges, Cities, Watches

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
  Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
  But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
  And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love Life, Rivers, Soul

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• In every village marked with little spire,
  Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

  William Shenstone

  Tree, Village, Littles

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• La luz del este que nuestras agujas tocan por la mañana, la luz que se inclina sobre nuestras puertas del oeste al atardecer, el crepúsculo sobre los estanques estancados al vuelo de los murciélagos, la luz de la luna y de las estrellas, la luz de los búhos y de las polillas, la luz de las luciérnagas sobre una hoja de hierba. ¡Oh Luz Invisible, te adoramos!

  T. S. Eliot

  Mañana, Estrellas, Crepúsculo

  T. S. Eliot (2015). "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems", p.175, Faber & Faber.

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• ¡Qué glorioso saludo da el sol a las montañas! Sólo por contemplarlo merece la pena mil veces cualquier excursión. Los picos más altos ardían como islas en un mar de sombra líquida. Luego los picos más bajos y las agujas captaron el resplandor, y largas lanzas de luz, fluyendo a través de muchas hendiduras y pasos, cayeron densamente sobre los prados helados.

  John Muir

  Dolor, Islas, Luz

  John Muir (1997). "Escritos sobre la naturaleza: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays", p.351, Library of America

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• There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Distance, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.863, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  Integrity, Moving, Home

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• New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

  E. B. White

  New York, White, Church

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.156, Cornell University Press

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• Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cutting, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Jack miró por la ventanilla cuando pasaron por delante del templo mormón, justo a la salida de la circunvalación, cerca de la avenida Connecticut. Un edificio de aspecto decididamente extraño, que tenía grandeza con sus columnas de mármol y sus agujas doradas. Las creencias representadas por aquella impresionante estructura le parecían curiosas a Ryan, católico de toda la vida, pero las personas que las profesaban eran honradas y trabajadoras, y ferozmente leales a su país, porque creían en lo que Estados Unidos representaba.

  Tom Clancy

  País, América, Gente

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.448, Penguin

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• When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

  William Cobbett

  Country, Order, Looks

  William Cobbett's letter to William Windham, May 27, 1802.

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• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dirty, Sight, Sea

  V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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