There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Books are the windows through
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HENRY WARD BEECHER The land upon which the goddesses descended –the land that was the locus of the divine activity �...
JONATHAN L. WALLS No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps,...
DANTE ALIGHIERI In the morning of the world," he said, "when the dew still lay upon the Garden, man was created so t...
ROBERT NATHAN Eden is a factory and human was a reject.
We are being recalled in order to be fixed.
TOBA BETA But there, set as in the crater of a mountain of sand, and inaccessible to mortal footstep, stands u...
BERNARD CAPES As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—th...
BRUCE R. MCCONKIE I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You have planted many seeds in the garden of possibilities. Meditation is the art removing the weeds...
AMIT RAY The Garden of Eden
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For centuries people have attempted to find the location of the Garden of Eden, placing it in such d...
WALTER LANG Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposit...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he...
VOLTAIRE When God created the Garden of Eden,
She became the first permaculturalist.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapte...
LEVIAK B. KELLY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
JERRY FALWELL To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The glory that resided in the Garden of Eden is inside of you
SUNDAY ADELAJA Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI It has a fairyland quality. It's a spectacularly beautiful Garden of Eden.
BRUCE BEEHLER I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER I wonder what God must have thought then / When He saw the work of Cain's hand / That the first baby...
BRIAN M. BOYCE Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidit...
TOBA BETA BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he ...
AMBROSE BIERCE We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. O...
HENRY MARTIN Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
VICENTE FOX when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the lan...
VOLTAIRE Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They’ve had centuries of practice.
MICHAEL SCHMICKER Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and fait...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
SHERMAN ALEXIE We are the choices we make.
PATRICK NESS The fire of hope never dies.
BEN OAK And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing bac...
PATRICK NESS She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake...
ORSON SCOTT CARD "O Charidas, what of the underworld?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
...
CALLIMACHUS This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH The victory we are given does not immediately restore the earth to the pristine state of the garden ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO When God created the Garden of Eden,
She didn’t use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbi...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark? Give me a break. For them, 'The Flintstones' i...
KEVIN PADIAN Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break. For them, 'The Flintstones' ...
KEVIN PADIAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
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