This World Quotes - Page 9

• ... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

  Aphra Behn

  Quality, Three, World

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1382, Delphi Classics

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• The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

  Merle Shain

  Life, World, Cheated

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• It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

  Margaret Oliphant

  World, Timing, Wanted

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2376, Delphi Classics

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• We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Lessons, Fists, World

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Memories, Blessed, Blessing

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• I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep.

  Laura Bush

  Nine, Sound, World

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• Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Vision, Insane

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

  Radclyffe Hall

  World, Normal, Toleration

  Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor

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• All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Failure, Loss, Reality

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

  Myrtle Reed

  Views, Perspective, Looks

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Humble, Race

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Hands, Fire

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Break Off, Laughing

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• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Space

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• to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

  Florence King

  World, Matter, Sin

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Men, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same -- but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.

  Paula Gosling

  Book, Two, Mind

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• There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Three, World, Fool

  "Revelation". Book by Narayanananda Swami p. 168 (2001 edition), 1951.

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• There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

  Lisa Ling

  Country, Children, Kids

  "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Looks, World, Saws

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  World, Importance, Mere

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• Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Character, Other Worlds

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• It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Depressing, Rights, People

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• Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss.

  Louise Hay

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  Louise L. Hay, David Kessler (2014). “You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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