Quotes with heaven

Quotes 281 till 285 of 285.

• Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

  Helen Keller
  American writer (1880 - 1968)
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• Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• nimbleness
• individual
• discovered
• pessimist
• uncharted
• lingering

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