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Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
-Robert Browning
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Earth Being So Good, Would Heaven Seem

Robert Browning
Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
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I have always thought that heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. god is merciful and way too good to make it so. the heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on earth. i was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. but those who did not fit in on earth at all, ended up here. everyone comes to heaven in their own way.
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Earth walks on earth, glittering in gold; earth goes to earth, sooner than it wold; earth builds on earth, palaces and towers; earth says to earth, soon, all shall be ours.
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And how high is christ's cross? as high as the highest heaven, and the throne of god, and the bosom of the father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.
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Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? that the earth is our mother? what befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. this we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. all things are connected like the blood that unites us all. man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. one thing we know: our god is also your god. the earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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For it is good to cleave to god, and to put our hopes in the lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'whom have i in heaven but thee? there is none upon earth that i desire beside thee.' assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
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But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
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