Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but read more

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.

There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.

There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
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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.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles read more

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world read more

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.