Aeschylus Quotes, Rain Quotes, Heaven Quotes

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

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The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

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Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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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.

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To be young was very heaven!

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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