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Results from Classic Quotes:

Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.: Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), A preface to "Paradise Lost"
How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise?: Ricardo Pinto, The Chosen

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
The only paradise is paradise lost.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

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