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«The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.»
Author: V. S. Naipaul | About: Men, World
«The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr. | About: World | Keywords: execution
«The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: coin, mint, mints, reissue, reissued, The Mint
«The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything»
«The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist»
«The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks»
«The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden»
«The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you: then look to your action, and abstain from the world of wickedness»
«The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings»
«The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings»