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"Can we outrun the heavens?"
"Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest."
"I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."
"Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be."
"Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1."
"In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness."
"I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation."
"Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all"
"Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven.""
"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."
"The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell."
"The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make."
"Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts."
"Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?"
"The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts."
"And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth."
"We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection"
"The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people."
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without."