William Shakespeare Quotes
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
Wayne Dyer
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
Lao Tzu
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Zhang Zhidong
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus
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In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
Daniel Defoe
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O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!
Edgar Allan Poe
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Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.
Ted Chiang
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You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
Rajneesh
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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.
Malcolm Muggeridge