Heaven Quotes - page 6

Sweet Mercy to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. (William Wordsworth)
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. View quote
William Wordsworth
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. View quote
William Wordsworth
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. View quote
William Wordsworth
Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more. View quote
William Wordsworth
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. View quote
William Wordsworth
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. View quote
Will Rogers
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. View quote
Plautus
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. View quote
Vitruvius
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. View quote
Herman Melville
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. (Edward Young)
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. View quote
Edward Young
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. View quote
Edward Young
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below. View quote
Isaac Watts
Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. View quote
James Joyce
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. View quote
William Shakespeare
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! View quote
William Shakespeare
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (William Shakespeare)
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. View quote
William Shakespeare
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. View quote
Sophocles
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore