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«I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made»
Author: Alfred Edward Housman | About: World
«If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.»
«If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.»
«I see trees of green........ red roses tooI see ?em bloom..... for me and for youAnd I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.I see skies of blue..... clouds of whiteBright blessed days....dark sacred nightsAnd I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the skyAre also on the faces.....of people ..going byI see friends shaking hands.....sayin?.. how do you doThey?re really sayin?......I love you.»
«He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: World | Keywords: dinners, visits
«If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: World | Keywords: valor
«Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches»
«If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: beaten, mousetrap
«If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep!»
«He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: giddy

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