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Quotes about heaven




To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence / 






Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason / 






Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
Charlie Chaplin / 






There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 






No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie / 



No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.




I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert / 



I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 






Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine - Le Chartier embourbé / 






The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
Henry David Thoreau / 






We are both of us neighbors of the sky, Madame,
Since you are beautiful and I am old.

Victor Hugo / 






Inside, you've got heaven and earth.
Hildegard of Bingen / 






My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 






Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire / 






Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Aristophanes - The Birds / 






Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






But, always ignorant of our own needs,
We ask the heavens for what we need the least.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux / 






Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
Henry David Thoreau / 






What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France






Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau






The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare






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