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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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Revelations (ch. VII, v. 9-10)
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“The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes Source: Catechism
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“Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of
the world.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes 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.”
Vincent Bourne Quotes 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.”
J. Bromfield Quotes 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.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici
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“In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 981)
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“O world as God has made it! All is beauty.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Guardian Angel--A Picture at Fano
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“The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.”
Robert Burns Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Francis Palgrave Quotes |
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“Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.”
Maltese Proverb Quotes |
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“He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes |
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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.”
Robert Heinlein Quotes |
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“You do not reform a world by ignoring it.”
George Bush Quotes |
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“The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”
Francis H. Bradley Quotes |
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“The world is a living image of God.”
Tommaso Campanella Quotes |
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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
Carl Sagan Quotes |
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“To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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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.”
George Eliot Quotes |
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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.”
Ben Elton Quotes |
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“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.”
Horace Traubel Quotes |
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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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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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.”
Dean Rusk Quotes |
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“Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!”
Immanuel Kant Quotes |
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