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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.

O world as God has made it! All is beauty.

The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.

I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

The world is a living image of God.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!