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“Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.”

Giving Writing Made Seems Might Earth Together Certain Order Heaven Water Principles Bears Relation Combination Colour Turkeys Carpet Montgomery Good Poetry

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.”

Way Mean Matter Certain Heaven Enjoyment Gratification

Author:Moliere

“It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.”

Done Certain Heaven Steps Almighty

Book:Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life

Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life

“A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.”

Knows Men Able Certain Heaven Teach Devil Agree Finals Doctrine Conclusion Everlasting Majesty Spun Unchangeable Concur

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.”

Has Beens Death Certain Found House Heaven Christ Rooms Glory Spots Mourning Disciple

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.”

Light Seems Earth Death Certain Heaven Hours Dark Approach Leaving Dark Hours

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.”

Humans Stills Certain Heaven Human Beings Sacrifice Possibility Rewards Satisfaction Certainty Contentment Grants Unending

Author:Cornelia Parker