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Tag Name "Paradise" (535)

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But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
George Eliot
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Albert Camus
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The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
Garrison Keillor
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Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
John Keats
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This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.
William Shakespeare
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
William Ralph Inge
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
Peter Porter
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With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.
Christopher Columbus
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I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
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If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise
Richard Gerber
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
William Cowper
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You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.
Paulo Coelho
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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
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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
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Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
Robert M. Lindner
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A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
John Dryden
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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
Zora Neale Hurston
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
Milan Kundera
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The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.
John Carroll
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In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.
Robert Kagan
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
Phyllis Bottome
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