“No thought for the hereafter have the wise,
for on this very earth they live in paradise”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.”
Songs of Summer (1856), p. 113.
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