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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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.
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.
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.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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.
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.
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.