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Paradise

noun

Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace. Synonyms: Eden, heaven, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la.

(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death.

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"Paradise" Quotes from Famous Books

... could say, "I beheld the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up"; Paul not the only one who should be privileged with rapture to the third heaven; George Fox not the only one to whom it was given to say, "I was come up, through the naming sword, into the Paradise of God." Many there are who have known "the Most High God no vision, nor ...

— Memoranda Sacra • J. Rendel Harris

... so sorry the living was sold," said Mary; "Katie and her husband would have made Englebourn into a little paradise." ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... think meanly of himself. Any one who gives his life for another will be met in Paradise by all the heralds and angels of the Lord God. And you have no such cause to hang your head. For . . . Pray, do you think me beautiful?" she asked, with a ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... reckon," said Mike, who was just meditating over his last draught, and his consequent departure from this bibacious paradise. ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... girl, with her thoughtful eyes, Who stood where the "brook and the river meet," Stole softly away into Paradise E'er "the river" had reached her slender feet. While the father's eyes on the graves were bent, The mother looked upward beyond the skies: "Our treasures," she whispered, "were only lent; Our darlings were ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

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