Stealing Heaven

Famous quotes containing the words stealing and/or heaven:

    “All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
    Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
    *nglorious, of his mortall sting disarm’d.
    I through the ample Air in Triumph high
    Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
    The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
    Pleas’d, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)