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“Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.”

Law Heaven Source Future Misfortunes

Author:Nguyen Du

“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.”

Source: My Study Windows

“What he [Michael Jackson] did was he allowed us, through his voice and his instrument, to see a glimpse of the heaven that he himself was denied. That sacrifice was the ultimate source of redemption that he gave to us.”

Heaven Voice Sacrifice Source Ultimate Instruments Redemption Denied Glimpse

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.”

Ideas Heaven Stars Views Failing Source Valuable Magnificent Sublime Splendid Grandeur Magnificence

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.”

Moments Happiness Given Heaven Felt Family Source Gratitude Pure Deeds Contrary Perpetual Uneasiness

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.”

Way Earth Faces Joy Heaven Silence Source Higher Abuse Welfare Contentment Submission Meekness Infamy Submission To God

Author:V. Raymond Edman

“We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and mature us into the men and women God intends to make us... If we keep this in mind when hard times fall, it can be a real source of joy in the fire.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Children Real Hard Joy Suffering Fall Heaven Grows Fire He Man Source Discipline Men And Women Hard Times Mature Persecution Testing

Author:Kirk Cameron

“Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.”

Men Giving Art Energy Force Heaven Creative Source Birth Flow New Beginnings Elementals Firmament

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.”

Inspirational Art Energy Heaven Source Flow Firmament

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

Humans Humor Happiness Joy Literature Heaven Secret Source Sorrow Pathetic Equator

Author:Mark Twain

“Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.”

Thinking May Body Values Heaven Divine Planets Source Embrace Surviving Outcast Secured Without Hope Heathen

Author:Julian Baggini