Quote Genre: Heaven

George Santayana – ‘Men have fiendishly conceive…

‘Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid and a hell only to find it ridiculous.’

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce – ‘ZENITH n. The point in the h…

‘ZENITH n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith though Horizontalists hold that the posture … Continue reading

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Sir Thomas More – ‘The way to heaven out of all…

‘The way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.’

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The Bible – ‘And I saw a new heaven and a…

‘And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.’

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Niccolo Machiavelli – ‘I desire to go to Hell not t…

‘I desire to go to Hell not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes kings and princes but in Heaven are only beggars monks hermits and apostles.’

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Charles Lamb – ‘A Persians heaven is easly m…

‘A Persians heaven is easly made: T is but black eyes and lemonade.’

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Alexander Pope – ‘Heaven from all creatures hi…

‘Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate All but the page prescribd their present state.’

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John Milton – ‘Which way shall I fly Infini…

‘Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatning to devour me opens wide To which the hell I suffer … Continue reading

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Oliver Wendell Holmes – ‘To reach the port of heaven …

‘To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor.’

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Matthew Henry – ‘All this and heaven too.’…

‘All this and heaven too.’

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