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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.]
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God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Hanging in a golden chain This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
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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.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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Heed not the folk who sing of say In sonnet said or sermon chill, ‘Alas, alack, and well-a-day! This round world’s but a bitter pill.’ We too are sand and careful; still We’d rather be alive than not.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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He’s got the whole world at his feet and he can’t find his shoes.
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix’d essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are–what thy name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
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