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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
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One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra -
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
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The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
Old Curiosity Shop
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