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By AnonymChristopher Wren
Architecture aims at Eternity
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.
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By AnonymChristopher Wren
Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]
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