“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

—  Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IV: Paradise and the Peri

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