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Theology

Paul Laurence Dunbar

There is a heaven, for ever, day by day,
The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so.
There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray
If there were not, where would my neighbours go?




Quotes of the Day

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
• Albert Einstein


Poems of the Day
  • Emily Dickinson
    A little bread - a crust - a crumb
    by Emily Dickinson
    159 A little bread - a crust - a crumb - A little trust - a demijohn - Can keep the soul alive - Not portly, mind! but breathing - warm - Conscious - as old Napoleon, The night before the Crown!