“The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
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“The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace”
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ”
“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them”
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”
“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think”
“The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.”
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain”
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends”
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world”
“The world and its way have a certain worth”
“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”
“Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world”
“There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude”
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”
“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice”