"Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven."
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"Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness"."
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"Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth."
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"We must bear what Heaven sends."
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"Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?"
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"I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens."
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"...heaven for climate, and hell for society."
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"There is no humor in heaven."
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"It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere."
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"God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company"
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"We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons."
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"It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?"
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"Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!"
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"When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so."
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"Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better."
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"My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell."
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"Accept that I enjoy being with you. Accept that when I'm with you I see Heaven in your eyes."
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"I thought he worked for Heaven.' I thought I was in love."
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"Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not die on me, ya understand? I can’t live without ya. Yer all I got, woman.’ Her breath caught in her lungs. ‘I don’t want to be here if you’re not."
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"For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
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