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No one is touched with the admirable spectacle of the sun which rises or seems to rise every day; but everybody runs at the smallest meteor which appears for a moment in the map of vapors which surround the earth, and which we call heaven.
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It is equally at home with living forms and with dead matter -- equally at home in the humbler spheres of human life and human infirmity, and in the higher spheres of the spirit world, which we call heaven.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856
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Open public land where I can run and play, spend time with my family, and enjoy life is what I call heaven.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories Glenwood Springs 2010
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Open public land where I can run and play, spend time with my family, and enjoy life is what I call heaven.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories Glenwood Springs 2010
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We have seen that, according to the Chaldæans, God created the world in six gahambars; but 7 was the most marvellous number; for there were at first but seven planets, each planet had its heaven, and that made seven heavens, without anyone knowing what was meant by the word heaven.
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ALTEA: Well, we leave this earth playing the spirit, the etheric body leaves the physical body and is able to travel through time and space to that place we call heaven.
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"Logically stated," says the Hindu swami, "this means that man's goal is this world (earth planet); carried to a state higher and with the elimination of its evils, this world is the state (place) they call heaven."
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Logically stated, this means that man's goal is the world; this world meaning earth carried to a state higher and with elimination of its evils is the state they call heaven.
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"She wrote me a letter from your place and said she'd found out what song writers meant by the word heaven."
Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910
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English language, is God, and the unknown place where He dwells, is usually called heaven.
Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Victor Mapes 1906
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