Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Author: Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Courage enlarges cowardice, diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.