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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books."
"There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable."
"By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."
"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."
"There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft."
"Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them."
"A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in."
"Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment."
"Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven."
"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"
"God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth."
"Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts."
"Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one."
"Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice."
"It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."
"The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties."
"Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!"
