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“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Buddha Quotes |
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“In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
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“The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.”
Natalie Kocsis Quotes |
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“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
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“This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: A Collection of Epigrams
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“Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Fortnightly Review--Armageddon--And After (p. 36)
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“The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 453)
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“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
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“The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes Source: Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24)
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“This world's a bubble.”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes Source: Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24)
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“Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. The Centre)
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“God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
[Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces
grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans
le ciel.]”
Honore de Balzac Quotes Source: Socrate Chretien
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“Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,
And make use of your wings while you may.
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But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,
They at last found it dangerous play;
Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,
Only dazzle to lead us astray.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes Source: Fly away, pretty Moth
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“Let the world slide.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Wit Without Money (act V, sc. 2)
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“The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.”
Bishop George Berkeley Quotes Source: as quoted in Punch, sources also attribute to Sydney Smith
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“But they will maintain the state of the world;
And all their desire is in the work of their craft.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXXVIII, v. 34)
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“Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as
the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as
a little thing.”
Bible Quotes Source: Isaiah (ch. XL, v. 15)
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“But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.”
Bible Quotes Source: Isaiah (ch. XLV, v. 17)
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