This World Quotes - Page 20

• We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Apples, One Day, World

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• You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Morning, Sleep, Play

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• In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Latin, Mean, People

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• The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  World, Infinite, Plans

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• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

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• This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Kindness, World, Next

  "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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• Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Hands, World, Poverty

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

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• As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Encounters, World, Virtue

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

  Guru Angad

  World, Worthless Life, Dies

  "Guru Granth Sahib", p. 83,

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• In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

  I. L. Peretz

  World, Weak, Dangerous

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• One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Accompany Us, Self, World

  Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott (2014). “A Daughter’s a Daughter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  Moon, America, People

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

  Albert Einstein

  World, Contemplation, Liberation

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Loyalty, Dog, Kindness

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We ain't got nothing without love.
  That's all we'll have when the world is through
  Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sorry, Causes, World

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• We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Promise

  Lillian Hellman (1957). “CANDIDE The famous musical based on Voltaire's satire”

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• Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Heaven, Faithful, World

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Hate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.109, Delphi Classics

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• Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

  Charles Barkley

  Men, Thinking, World

  "Are SUV Owners Supporting Terrorism?; California Redefines Rape". “CNN Talkback Live” with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Genius, World

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• In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Missing, World

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