# Quote — Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

> Wonder is the basis of worship.

- Author: [Thomas Carlyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle.md)
- Book: [Sartor Resartus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/sartor-resartus.md)
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> Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.

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> Be not the slave of Words.

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> Love not Pleasure; love God.

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