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“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Each of us has heaven and hell in him” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“He gave his honours to the world again, his blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VIII” - 1623

“How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment?” William Shakespeare, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” - 1609

“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Practical Reason” - 1788

“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking Heaven.” A. W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God” - 1948

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: and now prepare thee for another sight.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

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