“We have two lives about us,
Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
Alternate Heaven and Hell
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

—  Richard Henry Stoddard

The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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