“Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter IV
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity.”
"In drear-nighted December' (1817), st. 1
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
Context: I have no Protestant prejudices against Catholicism, and have no Catholic prejudices against Protestantism. I regard all religions either without prejudice or with the same prejudice. They were all, according to my belief, devised by men, and all have for a foundation ignorance of this world and fear of the next. All the Gods have been made by men. They are all equally powerful and equally useless.
"Peace and Stability in the Middle East and Beyond: A Hostage to Iranian Intransigence and Adventurism." http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=142&page=4, Oct. 24, 2007.
Speeches, 2007
Context: Our youth have defied and derided a regime which is not mindful of their future but is obsessed with the hereafter. The Iranian youth keep defending their right to live their age and the epoch in which they are born; that is to say in a world flourished by science and learning, and not mourning and martyrdom.
“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.
