"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."

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"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

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"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."

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"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."

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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

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