"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."

Society, Spiritual, Heaven, Earth, Materialism

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"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."

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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

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