This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
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This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

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.

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.

The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.

The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been read more

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
[Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces
grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans
le ciel.]

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 pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.