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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.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
 Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
 Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
  Be content read more 
 Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
 Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,
   And make use of your wings while you may.
    . . . .
     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,
      They at last found it dangerous play;
       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,
        Only dazzle to lead us astray. 
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without read more
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty read more
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
We can only change the world by changing men.
We can only change the world by changing men.
This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.
This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.
 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. 
 Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of 
the world.  
 Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of 
the world.