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Through the whisper of a forgotten spice, we unlock ages; the sweet heat of pepper and blush of saffron ajar portals to palates lost in time.
Author:
Amara Lal
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Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Author:
Xun Zi
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
Author:
Lu Yu
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
Author:
La Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Author:
Andrew Young
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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
Author:
Elinor Wylie
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
Author:
William Wilberforce
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
Author:
James Whistler
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Author:
H. Wells
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
Author:
John Webster
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
Author:
Neale Walsch
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Author:
Edmund Waller
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The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
Author:
George Wald
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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
Author:
Derek Walcott
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
Author:
Charles V
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
Author:
John Updike
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Author:
Mark Twain
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
Author:
Tina Turner
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Author:
James Thurber
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
Author:
Francis Thompson
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
Author:
Neil Tennant
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
Author:
William Taft
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
Author:
Joshua Sylvester
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
Author:
Patricia Sun
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They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
Author:
John Stott
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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.
Author:
James Stewart
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Author:
Edmund Spenser
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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Author:
Robert Southey
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Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Author:
Sophocles
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.
Author:
Carrie Snodgress
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Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud.
Author:
John Skow
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Author:
Charles Simeon
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Author:
George Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Author:
George Shaw
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
Author:
George Shaw
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Author:
Anne Sexton
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He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
Author:
Saint Sequoyah
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Author:
Walter Scott
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You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
Author:
Gunther Schuller
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It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
Author:
Girolamo Savonarola
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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Author:
George Sand
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By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass, current for the merchandise of heaven.
Author:
John Rutledge
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
Author:
George Russell
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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
Author:
Christina Romer
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
Author:
Beah Richards
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Author:
Jules Renard
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There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.
Author:
Maureen Reagan
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
Author:
Sally Rand
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Author:
Robert Quillen
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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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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.
Author:
George Putnam
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
Author:
Joseph Priestley
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Author:
J. Priestley
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Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
Author:
Jacques Prevert
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Order is heaven's first law.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
Author:
Li Po
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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.
Author:
Gary Player
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Author:
Plautus
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Author:
Plato
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
Author:
Ruth Pitter
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
Author:
Ellis Peters
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By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Author:
John Pearson
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Author:
Jean Paul
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Author:
Jean Paul
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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
Author:
Charles Parkhurst
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Author:
Philipus Paracelsus
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
Author:
Kerry Packer
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I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Author:
John Osborne
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Author:
George Orwell
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
Author:
Beth Orton
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We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
Author:
Baroness Orczy
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Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Author:
Ken Olsen
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.
Author:
Michael Novak
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Author:
Russell Nelson
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
Author:
Eddie Murray
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Author:
Dinah Mulock
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
Author:
John Muir
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.
Author:
Rita Moreno
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Author:
Thomas More
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Author:
Thomas More
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Author:
George Moore
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We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.
Author:
Thomas Monaghan
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Author:
Moliere
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Author:
Moliere
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Author:
John Milton
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Author:
John Milton
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Author:
John Milton
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Author:
Michelangelo
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Author:
Michelangelo
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May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
Author:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Author:
H. Mencken
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Author:
Mencius
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
Author:
Mencius
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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Author:
Herman Melville
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We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
Author:
John McGahern
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In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
Author:
Colleen McCullough
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If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Author:
Tom McCall
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
Author:
Lee Majors
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
Author:
Bernie Mac
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
Author:
John Lyly
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If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Author:
Martin Luther
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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Author:
Lucretius
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Author:
Max Lucado
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Author:
John Lubbock
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Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
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Jon Lovitz
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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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H. Lovecraft
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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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Christopher Love
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If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
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Christopher Love
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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Joe Louis
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This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
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Henry Lodge, Jr.
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Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
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Mary Lincoln
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Abraham Lincoln
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
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Joseph Lightfoot
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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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Georg Lichtenberg
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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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Georg Lichtenberg
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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
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Jerry Lewis
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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C. Lewis
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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Gotthold Lessing
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The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.
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Graham Leonard
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I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.
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Laurel Lee
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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
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Stephen Leacock
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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T. Lawrence
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Walter Landor
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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Alphonse Lamartine
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I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
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Osama Laden
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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Lactantius
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Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
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Judith Krantz
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
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Frank Knox
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My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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Mark Knopfler
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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Rudyard Kipling
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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Robert Kennedy
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
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Franz Kafka
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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James Joyce
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There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
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Mordecai Johnson
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Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
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John Jewel
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But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
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John Jewel
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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St. Jerome
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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
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John Jakes
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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Mahalia Jackson
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
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Helen Jackson
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
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Andrew Jackson
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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
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Charles Ives
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Washington Irving
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Muhammad Iqbal
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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Robert Ingersoll
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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Robert Ingersoll
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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Robert Ingersoll
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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Robert Ingersoll
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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
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Jean Ingelow
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My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
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Guillermo Infante
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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Bill Hybels
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Bill Hybels
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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David Hume
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
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Johan Huizinga
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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Victor Hugo
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Victor Hugo
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Elbert Hubbard
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When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
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Thomas Howard
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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Douglas Horton
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If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
Author:
Douglas Horton
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The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
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Douglas Horton
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
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Douglas Horton
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
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Samuel Hopkins
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: 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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Marjorie Holmes
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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.
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George Herbert
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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
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Matthew Henry
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It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
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Matthew Henry
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You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
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Jimi Hendrix
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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Lafcadio Hearn
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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William Hazlitt
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Salma Hayek
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I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
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Gregory Harrison
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7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.
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Gregory Harrison
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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David Hare
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Augustus Hare
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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Augustus Hare
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Thomas Hardy
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There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
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Jupiter Hammon
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We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
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Jupiter Hammon
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Author:
Robert Hamilton
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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Robert Hamilton
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Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
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William Gurnall
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In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
Author:
William Gurnall
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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Author:
Robert Greene
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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Author:
Alexander Great
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My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
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Billy Graham
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I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
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Nelson Goodman
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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Emma Goldman
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Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.
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Jeff Goldblum
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
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Humphrey Gilbert
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How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
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David Gergen
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I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
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Pam Gems
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Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
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Marvin Gaye
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
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David Garrick
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Galileo Galilei
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We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.
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Thomas Gainsborough
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Benjamin Franklin
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Anatole France
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
Author:
John Foxe
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I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
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John Ford
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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
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Jean Fontaine
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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Aulus Flaccus
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This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
Author:
Geoffrey Fisher
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
Author:
Freddy Fender
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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Author:
Bob Feller
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Author:
Frances Farmer
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I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
Author:
Charles Evers
