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knowledge is the wings when we fly in heaven. – goblin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
So many ways to hell and only one leading to heaven. It truly takes a Divine force to keep an imbalanced universe such as this one from collapsing in on itself – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow. – Omar Khayyam	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one. – Hafiz	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. – Dante	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The fish dwell in the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man at a foot?s distance cannot be known.* – Burmese Proverb	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. 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. – Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven – John Milton, Dr. Faustus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. – Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. – Helen Gurley Brown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead – unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven. – Tao Te Ching	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Divorces are made in heaven. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 13 years ago
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." – Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... – Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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