"What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience"
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"You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination."
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"In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one."
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"She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop."
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"The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original."
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"It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
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"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
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"Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs."
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"Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world."
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"Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth."
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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world."
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"When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?""
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"The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living."
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"The real world is much smaller than the imaginary"
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"The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
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"It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way."
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"If you can be interested in other people you can own the world."
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"My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself."
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"If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world."
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"Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me."
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