"Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great."
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"But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world."
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"Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object."
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"We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all."
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"The world globes itself in a drop of dew."
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"There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege."
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"Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate."
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"Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full."
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"Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success."
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"I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax."
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"This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues."
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"The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread."
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"The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more."
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"There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain."
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"Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show."
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"A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world."
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"The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us."
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"Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma."
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"When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it."
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"For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born."
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