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 more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom read more

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Advice: the world is how you see it. Don’t let anyone else’s image of it determine yours.

Advice: the world is how you see it. Don’t let anyone else’s image of it determine yours.

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting read more

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting 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 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.

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.

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.

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.