"There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven..."

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.310, Broadview Press

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.”

Source : "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.
“My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.”
“Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.”
“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.”
“I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.”
“I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.”
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.211, Shambhala Publications
“I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.”

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