"In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away"
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"A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering."
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"A marriage without children is the world without the sun."
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"I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me."
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"Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love."
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"Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts."
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"How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me."
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"But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith."
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"How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?"
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"The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it."
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"A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness."
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"I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy."
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"I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough"
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"When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world."
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"The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."
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"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men."
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"The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
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"A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world."
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