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"I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads."
"The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent."
"Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven."
"Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong."
"In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them."
"Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
"Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols."
"To the heavens on the wings of a pig."
"It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth."
"The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs."
"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world."
"Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself."
"Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."
"All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt."
"Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored."
"Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously."
"Heaven will display far more variety than Hell."
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."
"Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate."
"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."
