"Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude."
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"This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven."
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"Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life."
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"But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men."
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"Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just."
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"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
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"As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established."
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"Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
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"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world."
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"Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude."
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"How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven."
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"It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else."
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"No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth."
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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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"Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary."
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"Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world."
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"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
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"The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end."
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"Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear."
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