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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

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.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

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!

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.

I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

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

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

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.