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• They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change
  We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store....
• This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Youth and Art, xvii...
• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before
  The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound...
• In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part iii...
• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due?
  No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?...
• He had studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had learned to write equations of the most abstruse kind, without as much as a tremble of the chalk.
  -- Isaac Asimov "More Things in Heaven and Earth...
• Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed by thy name.
  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven....
• Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?
  -- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto...
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning