"My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken."
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"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven."
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"By Heaven, I love thee better than myself"
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"The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment."
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"The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven."
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"The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him."
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"I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well"
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"The memory of the just survives in Heaven."
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"When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject."
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"Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry."
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"I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."
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"Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true."
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"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
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"Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire."
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"From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel."
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"A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman."
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"If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
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"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."
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"Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive."
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"When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear."
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