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We can only change the world by changing men.
We can only change the world by changing men.
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
With nowhere yet to rest read more
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
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This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
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.