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“And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.”
Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618) said by 1618 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.
“I walk as one unclothed of flesh, I wash my spirit clean; I see old miracles afresh, And wonders yet unseen. I will not leave Thee till Thou give Some word whereby my soul may live!I listened — but no voice I heard; I looked — no likeness saw; Slowly the joy of flower and bird Did like a tide withdraw; And in the heaven a silent star Smiled on me, infinitely far.”
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chantry Of The Cherubim" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
“Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. “A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once let the Angel blow! — A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven! For the time is come that was foretold So long ago! As the avalanche gathers, huge and cold, From the down of the harmless snow, The years and the ages gather and hang Till the day when the word is spoken: When they that dwell in the end of time Are smitten alike for the early crime, As the vials of wrath are broken!”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.
“Yes, let the Angel blow! A peal from the parted heaven, The first of seven!— The warning, not yet the sign, of woe! That men arise And look about them with wakened eyes, Behold on their garments the dust and slime, Refrain, forbear, Accept the weight of a nobler care And take reproach from the fallen time!”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.
“Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.”
John Brown (essayist) first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3
Also quoted by: John Brown
“Come then, my bird! For the peace thou ever bearest, Still Heaven's messenger of comfort to me— Come—this fond bosom, O faithfullest and fairest, Bleeds with its death-wound, its wound of love for thee!”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou great Creator! Pardon us who reach For other heaven beyond this world of thine, This matchless world, where thy least touch doth teach Thy solemn lessons clearly, line on line. And help us to be grateful, we who live Such sordid, fretful lives of discontent, Nor see the sunshine nor the flower, nor strive To find the love thy bitter chastening meant.”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Before Sunrise", in Poems (1872)
“O child! dear child! Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my flights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Singer" (1860).
“Wisdom sits alone Topmost in Heaven.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat", II, in Melanie and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1835), p. 128.
“He who binds His soul to knowledge steals the key of heaven.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat", II, in Melanie and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1835), p. 129.
“They are all up—the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. […] There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of spheres.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) first seen 1847 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Contemplation", in Sacred Poems (New York: Clark & Austin, 1847), p. 104.
“But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway!”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unseen Spirits", in Poems of Early and After years (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848), p. 234.
“A pitcher of mignonette, In a tenement's highest casement: Queer sort of flower-pot—yet That pitcher of mignonette Is a garden in heaven set, To the little sick child in the basement— The pitcher of mignonette, In the tenement's highest casement.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Ganges water will reach your ancestors in heaven, why should the water I throw up not reach my fields in the Punjab, which are far less distant ?”
Guru Nanak (1469–1539) said by 1539 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am, gay creature, With pardon of your deities, a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”
John Ford (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman!”
John Ford (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nice philosophy May tolerate unlikely arguments, But heaven admits no jest.”
John Ford (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...”
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (1896-11-17), from the National Trust collection.
“Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit, round by round.”
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mud is mankind in the moulding, Heaven's mystery unfolding”
Robert Service (1874–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are but as the instrument of heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby. That would be too demanding. I'm just talkin' bout two lonely people Who might reach a little understanding. I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heaven with whether we're wrong or we're right. I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out, I'm just talkin' bout tonight.”
Toby Keith (1961–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm gonna miss that smile, I'm gonna miss you my friend Even though it hurts the way it ended up, I'd do it all again So play it sweet in heaven 'cause that's right where you wanna be I'm not cryin' 'cause I feel so sorry for you, I'm cryin' for me.”
Toby Keith (1961–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
“Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!”
Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hail, Columbia! (1798).
“The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver As our souls flow in one down eternity’s river.”
Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The resolute one who moved by the principles of Thy Faith Extends the prosperity of order to his neighbors And works the land the evil now hold desolate, Earns through Righteousness, the Blessed Recompense Thy Good Mind has promised in Thy Kingdom of Heaven.”
“A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for, Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest. Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal, It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven! To effect this I shall work now and ever more.”
“I want to be inside your heaven.”
Carrie Underwood (born 1983) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Inside Your Heaven from the album, Some Hearts (2005). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
“As the diamond is the crystalline Revelator of the achromatic white light of Heaven, so is a perfect poem the crystalline revelation of the Divine Idea.”
Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will see you in heaven.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell; Within us, and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell: Without, the somber Real, Within our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal!”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not what we would, but what we must, Makes up the sum of living; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and in giving.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know,—yet my arms are empty, That fondly folded seven, And the mother heart within me Is almost starved for heaven.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Are the Children at Home?", in Poems of the Household (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), p. 19.
“Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1653 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeremy Taylor, "Apples of Sodom," Part II, Sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
Also quoted by: Anatole France (misattributed)
“Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!”
George Canning (1770–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.”
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) said by 1773 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Lord Lyttleton
“I’m sure I’ll go to heaven. I’ve been dull enough.”
Peter S. Beagle (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stability of happiness depends − quite apart from any question of destiny − not only on the beauty and wisdom of our attitude but also, and above all, on an opening towards Heaven which confers upon the experience of happiness a life continually renewed. One must realize in earthly mode that which will be realized in heavenly mode; this is the very definition of nobility of character.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death cannot come To him untimely who is fit to die; The less of this cold world, the more of heaven; The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180
“Though heaven be given us freely, yet we must contend for it, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" (Eccl. 9:10)”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) first seen 1669 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Christian Soldier; or Heaven Taken by Storm (1669).
“In Adam we all suffered shipwreck and repentance is the only plank left us after shipwreck to swim to heaven.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though heaven be given us freely, yet we must contend for it, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" (Eccl 9:10). Our work is great, our time short, our Master urgent. We have need therefore to summon together all the powers of our souls and strive as in a matter of life and death, that we may arrive at the kingdom above.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved" (2 Peter 3:12), but not that truth which came from heaven (1 Peter 1:25)”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earth is less fragrant now, and heaven more sweet.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source