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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end
William Penn
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The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are open paradise.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes (l. 53)
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A book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Quotes , Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 12), (FitzGerald's translation)
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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
Christina G. Rossetti
Quotes , Source: Saints and Angels (st. 10)
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
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Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.
Arab Proverb
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 495)
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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
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Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
Buddha
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Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?
Buddha
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away
Emily Dickinson
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
William R. Alger
Quotes , Source: Oriental Poetry--The Ninth Paradise
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It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is
planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city
is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom
perfected beforehand.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Esdras (ch. VIII, v. 52)
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Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,
The desert were a paradise
If thou wert there, if thou were there.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Oh! Wert Thou in the Cold Blast
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In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
George Crabbe
Quotes , Source: The Borough Players (letter XII)
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Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Merlin
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Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies.
John Keats
Quotes , Source: Fairy Song
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So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,
As with a rural mound, the champain head
Of a steep wilderness.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 131)
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One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
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There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
Some may perchance, with strange surprise,
Have blundered into Paradise.
Francis Thompson
Quotes , Source: Epilogue (st. 2)
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