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Heaven Quotes - Page 79

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

1876 Prime Minister to Phineas.The Prime Minister, ch.68.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.863, Wordsworth Editions

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1818). “The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.97

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.30

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black