For nature
appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of
sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or
permanent habitation.--CICERO.
The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.--GEORGE
MACDONALD.
The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must
pay his soul.--HAFIZ.
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
--QUARLES.
This world is God's world, after all.--CHARLES KINGSLEY.
There is another and a better world.--KOTZEBUE.
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and
pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their
eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a
miserable production, a poor concern.--BOVEE.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.--LOCKE.
Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions,
and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and
the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And
extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.--FULLER.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a
knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except
at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart.--LADY BLESSINGTON.
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at
times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with
the world who did his duty in it.
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