It is thyself, mine own self's better part;
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart;
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim,
My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
~
The Comedy of Errors
by
William Shakespeare
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~
Paradise Lost
by
John Milton
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven.
~
Paradise Lost
by
John Milton
"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
~
King John
by
William Shakespeare
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.
~
Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
~
Tom Jones
by
Henry Fielding
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
~
The Mill on the Floss
by
George Eliot
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.
~
Nicholas Nickleby
by
Charles Dickens
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.
~
Nicholas Nickleby
by
Charles Dickens