Horace Quotes, Heaven Quotes, Strive Quotes

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Would Be Quotes

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Angel Quotes , Heaven Quotes

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , God Quotes , Heaven Quotes

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Our World Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Islands Quotes , Heaven Quotes

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Winning Quotes , Heaven Quotes

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Care Quotes

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Journey Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Heaven Quotes , May Quotes

I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Good Night Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fire Quotes , Heaven Quotes

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Banking Quotes

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Heaven Quotes

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fire Quotes , Heaven Quotes

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Hell Quotes

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Heaven Quotes

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Heaven Quotes