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.

This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier read more

This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third read more

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.

The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by read more

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.