Best Heaven Proverbs
5775 Heaven quotes by 2623 unique authors
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I shall hear in heaven.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the…
— Thomas Traherne
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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven…
— Aeschylus
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For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes…
— Martin Luther
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
— John Suckling
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Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less…
— Max Beerbohm
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
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God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and…
— Cynthia Rylant
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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
— Mark Twain
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and…
— Theodore Dreiser
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
— William Blake
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There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
— Bertrand Russell
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Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
— John Lennon
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't…
— Hugh Laurie
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My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our…
— Jack Handey
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound…
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,…
— Tertullian
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
— Joseph Joubert
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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