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Heaven Quotes
Small pleasures and old prayers, both called heaven.
These heaven quotes range widely — an offhand comparison of a small daily pleasure to heaven, an old geopolitical description of a desert as a natural barrier, and a blessing asked for one's own country. The tone sits close to Hope quotes, another collection built on longing for something better.
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
- Forgiveness
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
- Friends
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In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
- Affection
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
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This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
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