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"Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are."
"The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it."
"Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven."
"Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since."
"Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful."
"How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?"
"So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world."
"I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell."
"It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell."
"Princes are venison in Heaven."
"Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience."
"Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face."
"Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest."
"When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven."
"You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion."
"Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards."
"I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me."
"While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian."
"Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals."
"And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides."
