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• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  Exercise, May, Doe

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

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• Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Ideas, Way, Knows

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• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  Kathleen Raine

  Writing, Apology, Sky

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Earth, Littles

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

  Mark Salzman

  Hell, Deny, Thee

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• A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Couple

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

  Robin Leach

  Class, Culture, Exotic

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

  Michael Caine

  Growing Up, Book, Elephants

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

  Rumi

  Tangled, Littles, Splendor

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• We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

  Jacque Fresco

  Paradise On Earth, Wipe, Oblivion

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• It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Feelings, May

  "Transformation of Evil". Book by Debra Redman, p. 119, January 4, 2010.

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• How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

  Andre Breton

  Delight, Flow, Tides

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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

  John Donne

  God, Autumn, Maturity

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Good Nature

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Fruit

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• Love is the simplest of all earthly things.
  It needs no grandeur of celestial trust
  In more than what it is, no holy wings:
  It stands with honest feet in honest dust,
  And is the body's blossoming in clear air
  Of trustfulness and joyance when alone
  Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair
  And claim that Paradise which is their own.
  Amid a universe of sweat and blood,
  Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate,
  Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood
  Of the loud world, in secret ere too late
  A gentle sacrament may celebrate
  Before their private altar of the good.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Hate, Love Is, Dust

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• Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Ocean, Blue, Feelings

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• It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

  John Flavel

  Promise, Hell, Lows

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.458

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• I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Character, Thinking, Scott Fitzgerald

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• Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Mean, Soul, Gold

  Christopher Columbus, Richard Henry Major (1870). “Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World”, p.203

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• When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Stories, Kind, Realizing

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• This is who I am
  Escapist
  Paradise Seeker
  Farewell, time to fly
  Out of sight
  Out of time
  Away from all lies

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Lying, Farewell, Sight

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• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  Randy Newman

  Albums, Trouble

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• Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

  Gloria Swanson

  Islands, Keys, West

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• My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Inspiration, Home, Men

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