Eden Quotes
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Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
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One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.
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... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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Some suppose these parks to have been reminiscences of a tradition of Eden: at any rate a place of the sort was called a paradise. And so, by adopting the word, Christ appears to indicate that at death we pass, as it were, into the wondrous garden that surrounds the Father’s house, but not into the house itself.
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Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
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If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.
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My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.
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If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.
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This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
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A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.
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[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?
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The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
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Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
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We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
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Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.
