“But I account it worth
All pangs of fair hopes crost—
All loves and honors lost,—
To gain the heavens, at cost
Of losing earth.”

—  Theodore Tilton

Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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