World Quotes

• "Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going."
  By: David Starr Jordan
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• "There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem."
  By: Lyndon B. Johnson
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• "Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders."
  By: Elton John
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• "In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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• "It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over."
  By: Jerome K. Jerome
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• "While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?"
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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