The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
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- If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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- Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
- Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.