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

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."

"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."

"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."

"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"

"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."

"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."

"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."
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