"Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep."
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"Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just."
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"When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven."
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"We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens."
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"If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal."
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"The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body."
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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
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"For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven."
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"Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."
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"My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time."
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"Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross."
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"Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land."
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"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven."
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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
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"LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us."
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"He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it-even once-we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask."
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"Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth."
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"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."
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"There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE."
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"I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em."
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