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To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low.

Jonathan Edwards

Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

OK, I'll predict that the rapture's coming and you and I, Chris [Matthews], are going up, and all these hypocritical conservatives who tell people not to do stuff but then they get caught doing are not.

Maureen Dowd

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Edmund Waller