Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Heaven
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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