"It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing."
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"One lives but once in the world."
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"If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."
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"Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it."
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"It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly."
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"And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily."
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"It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God."
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"Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture."
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"The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it."
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"The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it."
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"As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies."
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"No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's."
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"Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World"
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"Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought."
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"Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?"
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"A world without love would be no world."
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"The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused."
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"Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce."
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"The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly."
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"We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead."
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