Quotes: heaven
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
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Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Source: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
