Paradise

Quotes about paradise:

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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, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes (1754), line 53.

• Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.
  • Translation: No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.
  • David Hilbert Über das Unendliche (On the Infinite), Math. Ann. 95

• A limbo large and broad, since call'd
  The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 495.

• 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, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 131.

• One morn a Peri at the gate
  Of Eden stood disconsolate.
  • Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri.

• "He who builds a mosque in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise." - Sahih Muslim, Nr. 828; muslim-canada.org
  • Muhammad

• A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
  A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
  Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
  Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
  • Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), St. 12. FitzGerald's translation.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 578-79.

• 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, Oriental Poetry, The Ninth Paradise.

• 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 wert there.
  • Robert Burns, Oh! Wert Thou in the Cold Blast.

• In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
  • George Crabbe, The Borough Players, Letter XII.

• Nor count compartments of the floors,
  But mount to paradise
  By the stairway of surprise.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merlin.

• Unto you is paradise opened.
  • II Esdras, VIII. 52.

• Dry your eyes—O dry your eyes,
  For I was taught in Paradise
  To ease my breast of melodies.
  • John Keats, Fairy Song.

• 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 L'Epine, Croquemitaine, Book II Chapter IX. Hood's translation.

• The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
  And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
  • Christina G. Rossetti, Saints and Angels, Stanza 10.

• 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, Epilogue, Stanza 2.

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