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Of an idle unrevolving man the kindest Destiny, like the most assiduous Potter without wheel, can bake and knead nothing other than a botch; let her spend on him what expensive coloring, what gilding and enameling she will, he is but a botch.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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We see below an unrevolving point on the sun that marks its pole.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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The most faithful discharge of his great duty, -- the highest good of the nation, -- to this fixed, unrevolving star his soul was steady as the needle to the pole.
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Of an idle unrevolving man the kindest Destiny, like the most assiduous Potter without wheel, can bake and knead nothing other than a botch; let her spend on him what expensive colouring, what gilding and enamelling she will, he is but a botch.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Of an idle unrevolving man the kindest Destiny, like the most assiduous Potter without wheel, can bake and knead nothing other than a botch; let her spend on him what expensive colouring, what gilding and enamelling she will, he is but a botch.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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