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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than read more
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
 Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
 The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.  
 Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
 The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. 
 'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell
 And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.
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 'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell
 And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.
  On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
   And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed. 
 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and 
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through read more 
 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and 
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth 
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor 
steal:
  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
 Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
 Or what's a heaven for?  
 Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
 Or what's a heaven for? 
 To appreciate heaven well
 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.  
 To appreciate heaven well
 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell. 
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary
 Heaven means to be one with God.
   - Confucius,  
 Heaven means to be one with God.
   - Confucius,