"Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."
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"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
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"There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world."
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"The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world."
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"The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty."
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"The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh."
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"The world is his who has money to go over it."
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"Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread."
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"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world."
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"The world we live in is but thickened light."
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"Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world."
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"Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded."
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"We walk alone in the world."
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"We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables."
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"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."
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"Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary."
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"We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration."
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"The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination."
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