“A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lectures XI, XII, and XIII, "Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
“They reach the realms of tranquil bliss.
Green spaces folded in with trees,
A paradise of pleasances.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
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