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    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.

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He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
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He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says--what says he?--Caw.

by Vincent Bourne Found in: World Quotes,
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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.

by Robert Burns Found in: World Quotes,
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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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: World Quotes,
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Let the world slide.

Let the world slide.

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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, read more

After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and
tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

by Bible Found in: World Quotes,
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than read more

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: World Quotes,
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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.

by T. S. Eliot Found in: World Quotes,
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

by W. C. Fields Found in: World Quotes,
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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.

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