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Quotes about World


But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Edwin Bible

World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

William Shakespeare

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.

Christiane Collange

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Sydney Smith

A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

Emile Capouya

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

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

John Milton

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Thomas Carlyle

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Susan Taylor

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Sir Thomas Browne

Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world.

Unattributed Author

Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.

Unattributed Author

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.

John O'Keefe

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Joyce Cary

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

George Moore

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.

Saint Augustine

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

George Moore

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Bob Dylan

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