Any wife will save
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. Elizabeth Montagu
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Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. Elizabeth Montagu
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame – to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul’s purgatory. Francis Quarles
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; … Read more
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. Federica Montseny
Then all at once in late August’s heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya’s phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. … Read more
I will find you, he whispered in my ear. I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you – then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one … Read more
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. Diana Gabaldon
We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell. Denis Johnson
History will be erased in the universal purgatory. Dejan Stojanovic