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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.rn
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.rn
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.
 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.
 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. 
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
 Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
 Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
  Be content read more 
 Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
 Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,
   And make use of your wings while you may.
    . . . .
     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,
      They at last found it dangerous play;
       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,
        Only dazzle to lead us astray. 
 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.