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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is

Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. Mathew – Bible

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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved. – Emily Dickinson

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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