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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Jonathan Swift
Happiness, Success, Heaven
Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Jonathan Swift
Prayer, Heaven, Devotion
Jonathan Swift (1755). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory”, p.227

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Jonathan Swift
Believe, Justice, Heaven
Jonathan Swift (1808). “Works”, p.105

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift
Heaven, Ignorant, Literature
'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Jonathan Swift
Taken, Heaven, Atheism
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.392

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