"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

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"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

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"In heaven there will be no tears, because every tear was cried when Jesus died on the cross."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

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"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Heaven's currency is friendship."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven."

Lactantius, Roman Author

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"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."

Derek Walcott, Trinidadian Playwright

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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

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"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

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