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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
(John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. Satan, in Paradise Lost, bk. 1, l. 254-5 (1667).)
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Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne once Heaven gives it to us.
(Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Livia, in Cinna, act 4, sc. 2 (1641).
Livia justifies her husband Augustus's climb to power.)
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Sing
and your hell is heaven,
your heaven less hell.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Myrtle Bough.")
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Robert Hand, in Exiles, act 2 (1918).)
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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. "Cheek to Cheek," Top Hat, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1935).
Music composed by Walter Donaldson (1893-1947).)
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Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
(George Meredith (1828-1909), British poet. Love in the Valley (l. 81-82). . .
The Poems of George Meredith. Vol. 1. Phyllis B. Bartlett (1978) Yale University Press 1.)
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Heaven give you many, many merry days!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 240.
To Fenton on his marriage to Anne Page.)
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
(Robert Burton (1577-1640), British clergyman, author. The Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 2, sct. 3, memb. 4, subsct. 1 (1621).)
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Health is my expected heaven.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Letter, March 1, 1820, to his fiancée Fanny Brawne. Letters of John Keats, no. 194, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
Keats died of tuberculosis.)
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, December 7, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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