Heavens

Famous quotes containing the word heavens:

    “This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
    My pilgrimages last mile; and my race
    Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace,
    My spans last inch, my minutes last point,
    And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt
    My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “The heavens forbid
    But that our loves and comforts should increase
    Even as our days do grow!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence, that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)