Paradise Quotes - Page 14

• Travel is a fools paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Tourism, Fool

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• I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Children, Writing, Eden

  Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405

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• We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Love Is, Men, Needs

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1988). “The last temptation of Christ”, Touchstone

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• Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liberty, Sound, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, Pigs

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• In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Air, Rivers, Cold

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Church, World, Has Beens

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• A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Loss, Men

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• It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Evil, Fool, Causes

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  George William Russell

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Stills, Ifs

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Competition, Prison, Socialist

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

  Pietro Aretino

  Pain, Taverns, Care

  Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.

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• I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Library, Form

  "Poem of the Gifts" (1959) (translation by Alastair Reid)

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• The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.

  William Stanley Jevons

  School, Forever, Fool

  William Stanley Jevons (1879). “Political Economy”

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• Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Stories, Exploration, Relation

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• Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists

  Georges Wolinski

  Believe, Idiot

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• The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.

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• A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

  Nathalia Crane

  Laughter, Wall, Angel

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 502), 1895.

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• It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.

  Brother Lawrence

  Jesus, Humble, Lord

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• Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.

  Bill Maher

  Suicide, Believe, Guy

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• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Animal, Past

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• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

  Ashley Judd

  Important, Quality, Three

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