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Heaven: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.— MICHAEL ANGELO — Sonnet LXIII.
After Sunset. In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 20.
Heaven means to be one with God. CONFUCIUS, quoted by CANON FARRAR. Sermons. Eternal Hopes. What Heaven Is. Last Line. And so upon this wise I prayed, - Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me.— EMILY DICKINSON — A Prayer.
Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.— DRYDEN — The Spanish Friar. Act V. Sc. 2.
Since heaven's eternal year is thine.— DRYDEN — Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. L. 15.
'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.— CATHERINE M. FANSHAWE — Enigma.
(The letter H.) While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 110.
They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. S.— GRAY — Enigmas of Life.
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair- Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child!— MRS. HEMANS — The Better Land.
All this, and Heaven too! и.— PHILIP HENRY — Mathew Henry's Life
of Philip Henry. P. 70. Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 128.
Pope's trans. Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire. And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.— OMAR KHAYYAM — Rubaiyat. St. 67.
There is another, and a better world.— AUGUST VON KOTZEBUE — The Stranger. Act I. Sc. I. L. 193.
The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.— LONGFELLOW — Drift-Wood. Twice-
Told Tales. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.— LONGFELLOW — Resignation. St. 4.
A heaven on earth.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 208.
Heaven open'd wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound On golden hinges moving.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VII.. L. 205.
It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.— MILTON — Comus. L. 302.
The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high, Where scepter'd angels held their residence, And sat as princes.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 730.
The starry cope Of heaven.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 992.
Though in heav'n the trees Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines Yield nectar.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 426.
There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.— MONTGOMERY — Friends.
A Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made, 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.— MOORE — Intercepted Letters. Letter VI.
A sea before The Throne is spread; -its pure still glass Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass. We, on its shore, Share, in the bosom of our rest, God's knowledge, and are blest.— CARDINAL NEWMAN — A Voice from Afar.
Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, In terras; et, quod missum est ex ætheris oreis, Id rursum cæli relatum templa receptant. What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.— LUCRETIUS — De Rerum Natura.
II. 999. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.— SENECA — Hercules Furens.