Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love’s location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond.There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1906), “The Way,” ll. 5-13, New Thought Pastels
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It is a misfortune not to be loved at all, but an affront to be loved no longer.
[C’est un malheur de n’être point aimée ; mais c’est un affront de ne l’être plus.]
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Persian Letters [Lettres Persanes], Letter 3, Zachi to Usbek (1721) [tr. Healy (1964)]
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Chiding Usbek for leaving her and his other wives behind as he travels to France.
(Source (French)). Alternate translations:'Tis a Misfortune not to have been belov'd; but 'tis an Affront to be belov'd no more.
[tr. Ozell (1736)]It is a misfortune not to have been beloved; but it is an affront to be beloved no more.
[tr. Ozell (1760)]Not to have been beloved is a misfortune; but to be so no more, an affront.
[tr. Floyd (1762)]It is a misfortunate not to be loved, but to have love withdrawn from one is an outrage.
[tr. Davidson (1891)]Not to be loved is a misfortune, but to be abandoned is an -- outrage.
[tr. Betts (1897)]It is a misfortune to be not loved; but it's an insult to be no longer loved.
[tr. Mauldon (2008)]It is misery not to be loved, but it is an offense to be loved no longer.
[tr. MacKenzie (2014)]
