"Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home."
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"Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more."
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly."
"Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven."
"The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it."
"My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you."
"There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes."
"All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven."
"We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us."
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
"If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing."
"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now."
"I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it."
"Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth."
"Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven."
"heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled."
"Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man."
"My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker."
"The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical."
"Heaven is to be at peace with things."