“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
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“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day”
“The moment eternal - just that and no more - when ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core while cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity”
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity”
“Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair”
“He ne'er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”
“I wish to beleave in immortality, I wish to live with you forever.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead”
“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”