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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.
Author: William R. Alger
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Oh! Wert Thou in the Cold Blast
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In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
Author: George Crabbe
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Merlin
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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.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes (l. 53)
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Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies.
Author: John Keats
Source: Fairy Song
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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!
Author: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 12), (FitzGerald's translation)
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Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri
had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely
near the fountain of Salsabil.
Author: Ernest Louis Victor Jules L'Epine (used pseudonym Jean Quatrelles)
Source: Croquemitaine (bk. II, ch. IX), (Hood's translation)
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 495)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 131)
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One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Source: Saints and Angels (st. 10)
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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.
Author: Francis Thompson
Source: Epilogue (st. 2)
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Author: Phillips Brooks
Source: None
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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
Author: Christopher Columbus
Source: None
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Source: None
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If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Author: Nikita Khrushchev
Source: None
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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Source: None
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Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.
Author: Ruby Dee
Source: None
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Patience is the key to paradise.
Author: Albanian Proverb
Source: None
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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.
Author: W. H. Auden
Source: None
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: None
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The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
Author: Gay Talese
Source: None
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The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
Author: Bell Hooks
Source: None
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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