Sarah Josepha Hale - Heaven Quotes

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While they kept the Sabbath day with pharisaical strictness, the other six days were their own. They strove for earth and sighed for heaven, and failed of enjoyment in the pursuit of either.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Of all kinds of knowledge, I consider antiquarian lore as the most unwomanly. It must be gained by so much research, and explained by such learned terms, and defended by so many arguments;... heaven defend me from ever meeting with that anomaly in our species — an antiquarian without a beard.

Sarah Josepha Hale

O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bending above thee, the angels draw near, And sing, - The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here.

Sarah Josepha Hale

What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

Sarah Josepha Hale