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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 Quotes |
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“Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.”
Arab Proverb Quotes |
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“The only paradise is paradise lost”
Marcel Proust Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.”
Depeche Mode Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.”
Laurie Anderson Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers”
Richard Greenham Quotes |
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
Ernest Louis Victor Jules L'Epine (used pseudonym Jean Quatrelles) Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
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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“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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“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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“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.”
Phillips Brooks Quotes |
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