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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.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Fortnightly Review--Armageddon--And After (p. 36)
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The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Author: Joseph Addison
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.
Author: John Armstrong
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.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24)
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This world's a bubble.
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
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.
Author: Philip James Bailey
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.]
Author: Honore de Balzac
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.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: Fly away, pretty Moth
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Let the world slide.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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.
Author: Bishop George Berkeley
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XLV, v. 17)
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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and
tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Author: Bible
Source: Revelations (ch. VII, v. 9-10)
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The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Catechism
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of
the world.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Public Baptism of Infants
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He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says--what says he?--Caw.
Author: Vincent Bourne
Source: The Jackdaw, (Cowper's translation)
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'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
Author: J. Bromfield
Source: as given in "The Mirror" under "The Gatherer"
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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici
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In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 981)
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O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Guardian Angel--A Picture at Fano
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The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Strathallan's Lament
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I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
To its idolatries a patient knee.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Author: Francis Palgrave
Source: None
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Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
Author: Maltese Proverb
Source: None
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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: None
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To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Author: Robert Heinlein
Source: None
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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
Author: George Bush
Source: None
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Author: Francis H. Bradley
Source: None
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The world is a living image of God.
Author: Tommaso Campanella
Source: None
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Author: Carl Sagan
Source: None
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
Author: Ben Elton
Source: None
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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
Author: Horace Traubel
Source: None
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
Author: Dean Rusk
Source: None
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
Author: Immanuel Kant
Source: None
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One real world is enough.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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We can only change the world by changing men.
Author: Charles Wells
Source: None
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Source: None
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There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.
Author: Kazi Shams
Source: None
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This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Source: None
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Author: John Locke
Source: None
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'If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better place, but the price would be never feeling happiness. is that a too higher price to pay?'.
Author: Portia Higgs
Source: None
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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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