Heaven Quotes
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What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.
Lao Tzu
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When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?
William Shakespeare
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold
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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
John Lyly
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, Heaven knows, Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
Joshua Sylvester
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Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.
Corrie Ten Boom
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One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever - and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.
Edward Abbey
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Heaven give you many, many merry days.
William Shakespeare
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
John Milton
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The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
Alan Hovhaness
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Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
Charles Dickens
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I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
Johannes Kepler
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Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.
David Jeremiah
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.
Antonio Machado
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Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
Charles Kingsley
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My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
Lea Michele
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Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce
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The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great
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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
Edmund Spenser
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Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.
H. L. Mencken