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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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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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Sing
and your hell is heaven,
your heaven less hell.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Myrtle Bough.")
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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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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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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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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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Thou waitest for the spark from heaven!
(Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), British poet, critic. The Scholar-Gipsy (l. 171). . .
Selected Poems and Prose [Matthew Arnold]. Allot, Miriam, ed. (1993) J.M. Dent.)
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