Heaven Quotes - Page 6

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

  Rupert Brooke

  Ponds, Immortality, Streams

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
  The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

  Homer

  Men, Greek, Woe

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.165

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• Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Death, Religious

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• Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

  Frederick The Great

  Inspirational, Men, Individuality

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

  Epictetus

  Life, Spiritual, Acceptance

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• Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mind, Architect, Site

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

  Douglas Horton

  Keys, Cynicism, Gates

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Riches

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

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• God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Hate, Heart

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• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

  William Blake

  Passion, Reality, Men

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

  Rupert Brooke

  Rivers, Space, Water

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Half, Might, Hell

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• The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Memories, Future

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• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  Camille Paglia

  Boys, Ballet, Helping

  "Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family". Book by David Knox and Caroline Schacht, 2009.

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• All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

  George Berkeley

  Mind, Body, Earth

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge pt. 1, sec. 6 (1710)

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• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Diversity, Chinese

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• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Hell, Fence

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Doubt

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• Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

  William Wordsworth

  Dawn, Alive, Bliss

  "The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

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• I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Worship Jesus, Christian Inspirational

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• When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

  Ayn Rand

  Hope, Crazy, Inspiration

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.103, Penguin

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