"Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla."
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"Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage."
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"Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell."
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"The self holds both a hell and a heaven."
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"The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both."
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"Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven."
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"Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not."
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"There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma."
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"I love thee, as the good love heaven."
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"The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven."
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"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."
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"The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us."
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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells."
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"Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!"
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"I am my own heaven and hell!"
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"O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light."
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"Innocence has a friend in heaven."
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"Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell."
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"You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?"
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"It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!"
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