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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • John Milton Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Francis Thompson Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • David Hare Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Horace Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Don Marquis now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Jules Renard On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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