"Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam."
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"I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world."
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"Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods."
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"The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles."
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"The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus."
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"For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul."
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"We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven."
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"In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?"
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"We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful."
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"Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth."
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"If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven."
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"If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell."
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"It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers"
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"This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven."
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"Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake."
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"I look through the grave into heaven."
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"The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in."
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"O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow."
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"He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven."
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