Quotes with paradise

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  • Mark Twain It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ezra Pound It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Robert Lynd It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Jean Paul Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • George Santayana Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jean Paul Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • André Gide The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bell Hooks The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Hugo Ball The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • William Shakespeare The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Karl Popper Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Thomas Gray Thought would destroy their paradise.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus every Part was full of Vice,
    Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
    Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
    They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
    And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
    The Balance of all other Hives.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Augustus Hare To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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