Quote by Daniel Defoe

“Depend on it, the nearer men draw to heaven, the more humble do they become.”

— J.C. Ryle

“No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag us away…

— Wilkie Collins

“Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall…

— Alexandre Dumas

“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Robert H. Frank

“Love, hope, and self-esteem, like clouds depart And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown and awful…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.”

— Henry David Thoreau

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.”

— Abbi Glines

“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already…

— Tom Althouse

“The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson