"There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven."
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"The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate."
"Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads."
"I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change."
"Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."
"Heaven's help is better than early rising."
"I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven."
"I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven"
"I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven."
"If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us."
"We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means."
"Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect."
"Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism."
"Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love."
"By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there."
"In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell."
"I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day."
"It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke."
"They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven."