Daniel Defoe Quotes
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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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.
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I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.
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When somebody tells you that - 'You've never played this sport, but I think you can be a playmaker' - you think the guy's crazy.
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The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
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In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
