"I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth."
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"As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind."
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"It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
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"A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both."
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"Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it."
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"The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows."
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"Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb."
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"Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder"
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"Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit."
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"Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God."
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"Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come."
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"Here or nowhere is our heaven."
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"There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!"
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"Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it."
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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way."
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"We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they."
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"A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters."
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"Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid."
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"The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous."
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"Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?"
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