“A happy family is but an earlier heaven”
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“A happy family is but an earlier heaven”
“In heaven all the interesting people are missing”
“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”
“Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven”
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings. ”
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory”
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend ”
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below”
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again”
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels”
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts”
“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal”
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes”
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.”
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”