| This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but heaven. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author:
Moore, ThomasEra:
1779 |
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| To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -- William Blake |
| Author:
Blake, WilliamEra:
1757 |
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| March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. -- Barry O'Meara |
| Author:
O'Meara, BarryEra:
1786 |
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| Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -- William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| Earth took her shining station as a star, In heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant |
| Author:
Kant, ImmanuelEra:
1724 |
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| heaven means to be one with God. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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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! -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, JeremyEra:
1613 |
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| If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way. -- Frederick II |
| Author:
Frederick IIEra:
1712 |
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| For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author:
Spenser, EdmundEra:
1552 |
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| One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world. -- Ibn Al-'Arabi |
| Author:
Al-'Arabi, IbnEra:
1165 |
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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. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it. -- Eugene Field |
| Author:
Field, EugeneEra:
1850 |
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| From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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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. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| A great country is lowly. Everything under heaven blends with it. It is like the female, at all times and in every place overcomes the male by her quietude. Than quietude there is nothing that is more lowly. Therefore a great state gains by yielding; while the smaller state wins the greater by submission. In the one case lowliness gains adherents, in the other it procures favors. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body... -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| See! led by Morn, with dewy feet, Apollo mounts his golden seat, Replete with seven-fold fire; While, dazzled by his conquering light, heaven's glittering host and awful night Submissively retire. -- Thomas Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, ThomasEra:
1758 |
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| The Nameless is the origin of heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. -- Ramakrishna |
| Author:
RamakrishnaEra:
1836 |
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| The Way of heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. It is not anxious about things and yet is plans well. heaven's net is indeed vast. Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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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. -- Saadi |
| Author:
SaadiEra:
1184 |
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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. -- Sir Walter Scott |
| Author:
Scott, Sir WalterEra:
1771 |
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| What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| The love of heaven makes one heavenly. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. -- John Bowring |
| Author:
Bowring, JohnEra:
1792 |
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| Men at most differ as heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as heaven and Hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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